Having a Plan For Preservation of Evidence in Workplace Incidents Critical To Avoid Unnecessary Exposure
While constructing some scaffolding at a power plant, a piece of scaffolding fell, struck, and injured a contractor’s employee. The supervisor on the job, also a contractor employee, took the piece of scaffolding to the power plant owner’s on-site safety director, who stored the piece of scaffolding in his office. The following year, that safety director relocated to another plant,...West Virginia Chemical Leak an Example that All Sizes of Companies Need To Focus on Safety
Posted on Feb 6, 2014 in Construction, Energy/Environmental, Investigations, Process Safety, Transportation, Workplace Safety | 0 comments
In a commentary for Law360, safetylitigation.com founders Matt Gatewood and Carter Williams explain the need for safety and risk management systems at companies of all sizes, using the recent West Virginia chemical leak as an important example. The leak from a small company’s storage tank caused thousands of gallons of a coal-cleaning chemical to contaminate the water supply of the...
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