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Article

27 Feb 2009

Author:
Ken Ward, Charleston Gazette [USA]

Bayer cited, fined in fatal explosion at plant in August [USA]

Poorly planned operating procedures, flawed emergency systems and faulty employee training at the Bayer CropScience Institute plant led to a runaway chemical reaction that killed two workers in August, federal investigators have concluded. U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials cited Bayer for 13 serious and two repeat violations, following a six-month probe of the explosion and fire in the plant's methomyl unit...Bayer plant manager Nick Crosby said the company would be studying the OSHA citations and "dealing with them appropriately." [also refers to Union Carbide (now part of Dow), Rhône-Poulenc (now Sanofi-Aventis)]