OSHA says workers were ‘essentially defenseless’ in dealing with a chemical spill. Untrained R+L Carriers Shared Services LLC workers managed to prevent an explosion and fire after a solvent spill at the company’s Wallingford, Conn. freight shipping terminal. A forklift was being used to transfer a pallet of tetrahydrofuran – a highly flammable liquid –
Read more →The state of Ohio is seeking more than $33 million from BP Products North America, claiming the company double-dipped to pay for cleanup of storage tank leaks. The Ohio Attorney General’s office, on behalf of the Ohio Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Release Compensation Board, has filed a lawsuit against BP Products North America in the
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