SAN FRANCISCO -- The chief executive officer and a pressroom manager of a San Francisco printing shop have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 2008 death of a pregnant worker who was crushed by a creasing machine, prosecutors said Thursday. Sanjay Sakhuja, CEO of Digital Pre-Press International on Mariposa Street, pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony charges of manslaughter and violating state labor laws in the death of Margarita Mojica, 26.
Alick Yeung, the pressroom manager, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of violating state labor laws.
Mojica, an Oakland resident, was four months pregnant when she was crushed to death by the jaws of a cutting and creasing machine on Jan. 29, 2008.
The machine was supposed to be locked and powered off between uses, under Cal/OSHA requirements. It activated suddenly, clamping down on Mojica's upper body after she had leaned into its jaws to set it up for its next job.
