Ship Builder Cited After Fatality at San Diego Naval Station

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

Fed-OSHA has cited a ship-building company and one of its subcontractors following an investigation into a workplace accident that killed one worker and injured another at the 32nd St. Naval Station in San Diego.The civilian worker died Feb. 27 from asphyxiation while working on a sewage tank on the U.S.S. Peleliu. According to Fed-OSHA, he was overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes while removing the cover from the tank. "He passed out, fell head-first into the tank and was pronounced dead

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