In the 2005 horror film “The Land of the Dead,” one of filmmaker George A. Romero’s characters, Kaufman, played by the late Dennis Hopper, says, “Zombies, man. They creep me out.”

For manufacturing, those “zombies” come in the form of safety violations, which can eat at a company’s budget through hefty citations and mandated production pauses, not to mention the risk to workers if they aren’t properly trained and protected.

SK Battery America was a repeat safety offender this year. The electric vehicle battery maker’s Commerce, Georgia, facility was hit with two Occupational Safety and Health Administration penalties regarding facility for health and safety violations. OSHA inspectors found the company exposed workers to respiratory hazards when working with cobalt, nickel and manganese, components used in the company’s electric vehicle batteries.

In food manufacturing, Schoep’s Ice Cream was cited by the Labor Department in January for an ammonia outbreak at a Wisconsin plant, exposing workers to the nitrogen fertilizer’s gases due to a lack of sufficient process safety management procedures.

And of course, there’s Boeing, which has faced immense scrutiny since a door plug blew out in mid-air on a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines flight. The incident magnified the aircraft maker’s ongoing safety and quality issues, and has cost the beleaguered company billions of dollars. Boeing’s nightmare is expected to stretch into next year as the company continues to burn cash.

These are just some of the terrors the manufacturing industry has seen over the past 10 months. Take a look at these other scary stories, if you dare.