OSHA Pressed On Pipe Cleaning Rule As NFPA Changes Code

Workplace safety advocates are stepping up pressure on OSHA to issue a regulation banning the practice of cleaning natural gas power plant piping with fuel gas, after the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards Council took action on the indoor purging of fuel gas pipes through an emergency code change. OSHA said it will send warning letters to natural gas power plants regarding the pipe cleaning issue after it fined companies involved in the Kleen Energy plant explosion in Middletown, CT, but would not attempt an outright ban on the practice through an emergency standard. The U.