Waste Management Company Suffers Worker Fatality After Ventilation Failure
Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc., a Massachusetts-based environmental and hazardous waste management service provider, suffered a worker fatality due to failure to ventilate a confined space containing organic chemical residue, .
The incident took place at customer’s facility in Twinsburg, Ohio, at which the Labor department’s (OSHA) determined the employer failed to implement legally mandated, permit-required space entry requirements. Specifically, OSHA found that the employer failed to ventilate, test the environment, and use non-entry rescue equipment, including a tripod, mechanical winch, and full-body retrieval harness.
OSHA cited Clean Harbors Environmental Services for US$602,938 in penalties.
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