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Tally's Frozen Foods is being prosecuted by the Labour Department after 11 Blenheim staff were poisoned with carbon monoxide in June.
The company has been charged with failing to take all practicable steps to ensure the safety of employees, acting workplace services manager for Nelson-Marlborough Annette Baxter told the Marlborough Express.
The maximum fine for the charge is $250,000.
The case is to go before the Blenheim District Court on January 25.
Ms Baxter said the workers, nine women and two men, were exposed to the carbon monoxide from a gas-powered forklift, which was being operated in the same confined space where the process work was being carried out.
Tally's personnel manager Greg Cox said the company would defend the charge.
- NZPA
