Car Dealership Fined $152K After Deadly Flash Fire

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited car dealership Carl Cannon Inc. after a flash fire killed three employees and injured two others at its facility in Jasper, Alabama. Proposed penalties total $152,099. OSHA investigators determined that the employees were using a flammable brake wash to scrub the service pit floor when the fire occurred on June 12. As a result, three employees were fatally injured, and a fourth was critically burned. A fifth employee was treated for smoke inhalation and released. OSHA issued Carl Cannon Inc. one willful and two serious safe...