{"id":52,"date":"2008-11-14T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/osha-settlement-reached-in-wisconsin-explosion.html"},"modified":"2008-11-14T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T11:01:00","slug":"osha-settlement-reached-in-wisconsin-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/osha-settlement-reached-in-wisconsin-explosion.html","title":{"rendered":"OSHA settlement reached in Wisconsin explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 11\/14\/2008<br \/><br \/>SPOONER, Wis. (AP) _ The chemical company where an explosion last spring critically burned two workers has reached a settlement with the federal government over workplace safety violations.<br \/><br \/>Authorities say Cortec Corp. has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine for failing to have a proper safety management system to handle flammable liquid propellants at its aerosol and liquid container filling plant in Spooner.<br \/><br \/>The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration originally proposed a $424,000 fine following the March 18 explosion that destroyed a production building.<br \/><br \/>Authorities say the settlement includes the company&#8217;s promise to bring the plant into safety compliance by Dec. 31.<br \/><br \/>Cortec&#8217;s Chief Operating Officer Anna Vignetti did not immediately return a telephone message Friday.<br \/><br \/>The plant is expected to resume production in January.<br \/><br \/>___<br \/><br \/>Information from: Wisconsin Public Radio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\">http:\/\/www.wpr.org<\/a><br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 11\/14\/2008SPOONER, Wis. (AP) _ The chemical company where an explosion last spring critically burned two workers has reached a settlement with the federal government over workplace safety violations.Authorities say Cortec Corp. has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine for failing to have a proper safety management system to handle flammable liquid propellants at its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,222,219,221,223,224,62,220],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chemical-explosion","tag-cortec-corp-lawsuit","tag-flameable-propellents","tag-osha","tag-osha-fines","tag-safety-in-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-news","tag-wisconsin-osha-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}