Ohio Glass Workers Say the Line Ran the Day After a Death
Ricky Patterson was dead on the concrete. They started the line again.
Summary
- On Oct. 6, 2026, Fox News reported a Dayton roundtable where former Fuyao Glass America workers spoke with Rep. Ro Khanna. The plant occupies an old General Motors factory in Ohio and is tied to a Chinese parent company.
- A former employee identified as Darrell said 57-year-old Ricky Patterson was killed loading glass, a day when Patterson was shaky because his mother had just died. Darrell said workers were told to come in the next day.
- That account is a coworker's statement at a meeting, not a court finding. Fox said the company had not given Khanna permission to enter the plant, so the company's own account of the death was not in the story.
- Other former workers, including Tiffany Moore and Demetria Hodges, described heat and efforts to stop a union. Those are their claims at the same table.
Commentary
An old American car plant in Ohio now cuts glass for a Chinese company. Former workers say Ricky Patterson, 57, died on that floor the day after his own mother died.
A coworker named Darrell said they were ordered back the next morning. That is what they said in the room. The company refused to let the meeting inside. An American was dead. The glass moved anyway.
Comments
Ricky Patterson. 57. They say the line ran the next morning. An American died on that floor.
It was a GM plant. Now a Chinese company runs the glass. A death in our town still counts.
Darrell said they were ordered back the next morning. The company locked the door and did not answer.
His mother had just died. Then he died. Then the buzzer.
The company would not open the plant. The workers still named him.
Heat, a death, a next shift. I do not need a trade lecture. I need the line stopped for a dead man.
