Big Penalties in Confined Space Case
By: Kevin Thompson Vol: 39 | No: 20 | Published on: May 18, 2012
A 2011 confined-space fatality brings a bevy of citations to a Southern California paint company and hundreds of thousand of dollars in penalties from Cal/OSHA.
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Cal/OSHA says employees at a Southern California paint manufacturing facility were so ignorant about confined-space dangers that when they saw two coworkers sitting in a tank filled with methylene chloride that they assumed they were “taking a break.” Instead, the workers were overcome. One died and the other required hospitalization. Now the Division of Occupational … Read More » This...
