The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Westinghouse Electric Co. last week for willful and serious violations of chromium exposure regulations at its stainless-steel component plant in Newington, N.H.OSHA said in a press release on Friday that Westinghouse, based in Cranberry, Pa., is facing $82,000 in fines following an inspection by the agency's area office in Concord, N.H.Inspectors said welders in the plant's main fabrication area were exposed to airborne concentrations of hexavalent chromium in excess of permissible limits and noted that engineering co...
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