http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/08/wv-chemical-company-fined-11000-for-poisoning-300000-peoples-drinking-water/
[Perhaps I have too high an opinion of myself, but I would like to think
that if someone poisoned my drinking water, the value assigned to the
punishment would be more than 4 cents.
video and links in on-line article]
WV chemical company fined $11,000 for poisoning 300,000 people’s
drinking water
By David Edwards
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 14:06 EDT
The federal government announced this month that a West Virginia
chemical company would be fined $11,000 for a spill earlier this year
that poisoned the drinking water for 300,000 people in the state.
According to a citation document obtained by The Charleston Gazette, the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hit Freedom
Industries with a $7,000 fine for keeping chemicals in diked areas that
were not “liquid tight.”
The administration fined Freedom an addition $4,000 for not providing
employees with a proper hand railing to walk over the storage dikes.
About 300,000 people were left without drinking water when coal cleaning
chemicals leaked on Jan. 9. A recent survey found that one in five
people reported health issues after the chemical spill.
The Marshall University Center for Business and Economic Research
estimated in February that the spill would cost businesses $61 million.
Freedom Industries, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, has
not said whether it would appeal the fines.
Watch the video below from Russia Today, broadcast June 24, 2014.
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