Regulators were at the site for pollution and worker safety oversight, but left above-ground tank integrity checks to the company.
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After a tank rupture killed 11 workers at a Longview paper mill, the Washington Department of Ecology said a public EPA database was wrong about the facility’s pollution record. But neither Ecology nor the EPA will say exactly what was wrong, what was real or when the public record will be fixed. As of publication, […]
State records show $41,500 in environmental penalties since 2017, recent Clean Air Act violations and prior workplace safety citations at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility.
The local emergency dispatch center says it received no 911 calls about the incident, and police have no record of responding.
The television station’s general manager says the driver was going the wrong way, jumped a curb, and was “completely off of the roadway” when the reporter was hit.
An Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesperson told Discrepancy Report that the reporter’s television station did not report the incident.
“Employers are only required to report fatalities, in-patient hospitalizations, amputations, and eye loss,” she explained. “This was not required to be reported.”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, meanwhile, said it captures no data on the risks of solo reporting and its injury statistics don’t differentiate between field journalists and journalists who are not in the field.