Mark Miller worked a dangerous job for more than four decades, but he said he’d never gotten hurt at work until his employment with an automotive supplier in Montgomery.

In two years with the company, he broke his hand and four ribs in two separate accidents. Miller said he received no safety training before being charged with running production lines for vehicle consoles and dash components, and employees were constantly dodging forklifts whizzing by at full speed, carrying parts from trucks to assembly lines.

“You was on your alert at all times,” said Miller, who worked at the facility from 2022 to 2024.“I was trained maybe 10 minutes on the job, and I was told to do it and go as fast as I could go.”

As bad as these conditions were, Miller — at the time one of thousands of incarcerate

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