OSHA cites paper manufacturer for willful, repeated, serious safety violations ($211K)

This paper company had 39 VPP Sites in 2013 and today they were placed in OSHA’s SVEP for this incident.  Here is a breakdown of the citations that took them from VPP to SVEP.  A 57-year-old general mechanic was removing burned filter bags of combustible fly ash dust from a dust collector in the facility’s power plant and replacing them with new bags when the fly ash ignited. He sustained severe burns as a result and subsequently died.

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