Phillips Petroleum to Pay $2.1 Million Fine
January 8, 2002
The Department of Labor announced last week that Phillips Petroleum Company has agreed to pay $2.1 million in penalties for safety and health violations found at its Pasadena, Texas chemical plant. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigation into the facility's operations was launched after one employee died and seventy others were injured in a March 2000 explosion at the complex. The explosion was the plant's third fatal accident in eleven years. The facility's worst incident occurred in 1989 when a polyethylene reactor exploded, killing twenty-three workers.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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