2 Companies Fined After Explosion, Fire at Factory Injures 4

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined two Ohio companies — a food additive manufacturer and a contractor — after an explosion injured four workers, including two who scaled an 8-foot barbed wire fence to escape the fireball, OSHA's Columbus Area Office announced. Manufacturer Arboris LLC did not have emergency shut-down procedures for the plant's evaporator and rotary drum filter when the fire occurred on Dec. 21, OSHA found. The Newark-based company — which produces sterols, a non-genetically modified resource used in food manufactu...