The wife of the 53-year-old man who was fatally crushed at Toledo, Ohio's Jeep plant a year ago sued Stellantis NV on Monday, alleging the automaker didn't have adequate safety guards in place that could have prevented his death.

Toledo resident Antonio Gaston, the father of three adult children and a teenager, died Aug. 21 while working in the Jeep Gladiator portion of the Toledo Assembly Complex.

It was the first of two workplace fatalities reported inside U.S. Stellantis plants over the last year, with the other occurring in April at the Dundee Engine Plant in Monroe County, Michigan.

The lawsuit filed by Renita Shores-Gaston in Ohio's Lucas County Court of Common Pleas says Stellantis didn't have sufficient guarding around the plant's conveyor system, which ultimately caught Gasto

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