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OSHRC Upholds OSHA Citation For Boat Explosion But Rejects ‘Willful’ Penalty


April 14, 2023 at 05:33 PM
A new decision from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) largely affirms an OSHA citation stemming from a 2018 shipyard explosion that killed three workers, agreeing with the agency that a salvage firm failed to train its employees on safety measures for confined spaces but rejecting its claim that the violation was “willful.”

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