Tosco Would Pay Record Penalty in Proposed Settlement with DOSH

Under a proposed settlement with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), Tosco Corp. would pay $462,630 covering six cases, including citations resulting from a flash fire in 1999 that took the lives of four workers and severely injured another.Meanwhile, DOSH's Process Safety Management (PSM) Unit is conducting an investigation at Tosco's Carson refinery, where a fire erupted in a coker unit April 23.The settlement has been submitted to the Cal/OSH Appeals Board, w