California workplace safety regulators fined a Salinas vegetable processing plant $35,000 for violations related to chlorine leaks that resulted in multiple evacuations and 99 workers being hospitalized in May, according to the Monterey Herald.The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal-OSHA) cited NewStar Fresh Foods for nine safety violations, including three that were deemed serious. The serious violations include failure to control exposure to chlorine and chlorine dioxide from May 3 to May 22, failure to protect workers with engineering controls and protective respirato...
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