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Friday, October 30, 2009

BP fined by OSHA a record $87M for Texas City Explosion

Four years follow a massive explosion in Texas City, OSHA fined BP a record $87 million dollars.


The Financial Times reports:


"Jordan Barab, acting assistant secretary of the labour department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said that in spite of Lord Browne being replaced as BP chief executive after the blast, BP continued to violate US safety regulations under the leadership of Tony Hayward.


“There are some serious systemic safety problems within the corporation,” Mr Barab said.


“That there are so many life-threatening safety problems at this plant means there is still a systemic problem.


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