SAN FRANCISCO - Fed-OSHA has proposed $1.6 million in penalties against Rhone-Poulenc AG Co. of Institute, West Virginia, following investigation into an explosion and fire last summer in the chlorination reactor section of the plant. One employee was killed and two were seriously injured. Seventy-seven of the plant's 1,200 employees worked in that unit.The citations, issued on February 17, were for 23 willful and three serious violations of the process safety management standard and one willful viola
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