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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Mark Krieger submits: Imperial Sugar (IPSU) has been under attack lately, as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA] has levied a $8.7 million fine for safety violations leading up to last February's explosion at its Port Wentworth refinery. A Senate Subcommittee has reviewed testimony from IPSU's Vice President, Graham H. Graham, detailing the plant's condition prior...
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The Pump Handle (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Kane at Osha Underground has posted an insightful, deservedly hostile response to OSHA Administrator Ed Foulke’s testimony at Tuesday’s Senate hearing on combustible dust explosions. In response to Foulke’s insistence that “The fatalities and injuries at the Port Wentworth sugar refinery probably could have been prevented, had Imperial Sugar complied with existing OSHA standards on housekeeping...
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Alternet (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... Administration in connection with conditions that caused a dust explosion earlier this year at its Port Wentworth, Georgia plant that killed 13 workers. Another fine of $3.7 million was proposed by OSHA in connection with similar problems at the company's operation in Gramercy, Louisiana.
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AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Equipment at Imperial Sugar Co.'s Port Wentworth plant in 2006 covered in combustible sugar dust. For years, Imperial Sugar Co.'s Port Wentworth, Ga., sugar refinery was an explosion waiting to happen—and on Feb. 7, a blast at the plant killed 13 people. The explosion apparently was triggered when a metal conveyer bucket hit the side of a metal elevator shaft and created...
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Source: [b]AFL-CIO News Blog[/b] by Mike Hall, Jul 29, 2008 For years, Imperial Sugar Co.'s Port Wentworth, Ga., sugar refinery was an explosion waiting to happenand on Feb. 7, a blast at the plant killed 13 people. The explosion apparently was triggered when a metal conveyer bucket hit the sid...
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SafetyAtWorkBlog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Last month America’s 60 Minutes broadcast an article on the explosion at the Imperial Sugar plant (pictured below) in Port Wentworth which killed 13 workers and hospitalised 40. On 25 July 2008, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued citations proposing penalties totalling $8,777,500 against the Imperial Sugar Co. and its two affiliates alleging [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
PORT WENTWORTH, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the Senate poised to address the issue of combustible dust standards this coming week, Imperial Sugar today challenged public statements made by
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
future market prices and margins, future Port Wentworth construction costs, timelines and operational restart dates, future expenses and liabilities arising from the Port Wentworth refinery incident, future insurance recoveries, future import and export levels, future government and legislative action, future operating results, future availability of raw sugar, operating...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 25 OSHA-refinery-fine
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 25/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued citations proposing penalties totaling $8,777,500 against the Imperial Sugar Co. and its two affiliates alleging violations at their plants in Port Wentworth, Ga., and Gramercy, La. OSHA initiated the inspections following an...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued citations proposing
penalties totaling $8,777,500 against the Imperial Sugar Co. and its two
affiliates alleging violations at their plants in Port Wentworth, Ga., and
Gramercy, La. OSHA initiated the inspections following an explosion and
fire on Feb. 7, 2008, at the...
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Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
... of the families of the 13 people killed as a result of the Feb. 7 explosions and fire at the Port Wentworth refinery.
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AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued 120 citations for safety violations at the Imperial Sugar Co. plant in Port Wentworth, Ga., where incredibly high levels of sugar dust fueled an explosion Feb. 7 that killed 13 workers. Dozens of other workers suffered serious injuries, and three remain hospitalized, two in critical condition. Almost all the safety...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
WASHINGTON — An executive at Imperial Sugar Co. says he found conditions so bad at a Georgia sugar refinery prior to an explosion that killed 13 people that he recommended immediately firing the plant manager.Safety plates were missing on electrical gear and piles of discarded sugar and other materials littered the Port Wentworth, Ga., plant, Imperial's vice president of operations, Graham...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration last week proposed nearly $9 million in fines against Imperial over what it called willful and egregious violations that allowed sugar dust to accumulate to dangerously high levels at two plants. OSHA said the dust at the Port Wentworth, Ga., refinery was probably ignited when a large bucket used to haul sugar in a silo elevator broke...
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Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
An explosion Feb. 7 at the Port Wentworth plant killed 13 workers. Five weeks later, an OSHA inspection at the Gramercy plant uncovered numerous violations. At both plants, inspectors found large accumulations of combustible dust in workrooms and on equipment. OSHA contends that Imperial Sugar officials knew about the hazardous conditions, but chose not to act. "I am outraged that this...
