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Farmington, Mo., Bank-Safe Manufacturer Files for Bankruptcy.

By David Nicklaus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 9--Farmington, Mo., has lost another manufacturer with the bankruptcy of Mosler Inc., which made bank safes and other security products.

Mosler, of Hamilton, Ohio, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday after firing nearly all of its 1,800 workers on Friday. The Farmington plant closed last week, Mayor Kevin Engler said.

The plant once employed nearly 100 people but was down to 30 to 40 employees recently, Engler said.

Farmington has lost hundreds of other factory jobs in recent years, most notably with the closing of a Huffy bicycle plant and Biltwell clothing plant. Huffy, which ...

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