[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS, HEALTH: Aerospace Defense Coatings (GA) chromium releases

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Macon plant fined for safety lapses

By S. HEATHER DUNCAN
Macon Telegraph (GA)
August 16, 2011

Aerospace Defense Coatings of Georgia, a Macon metal coating and  
painting plant, has been fined about $168,000 in state and federal  
penalties for serious and in some cases “willful” neglect of worker  
safety, in addition to violations of hazardous waste storage and air  
pollution laws.

OSHA inspectors found that Aerospace, located at 7700 N. Industrial  
Blvd., exposed employees to as much as 50 times the legal limit of  
chromium without informing them, safety records show.

Although the citations were issued in November and many were required  
to be corrected by January, OSHA is not yet satisfied that working  
conditions at the plant are safe, said Michael Wald, the regional  
director of public affairs for the federal Department of Labor.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2011/08/16/1667108/macon-plant-fined-for-safety- 
lapses.html#0_undefined,0_

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