The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a gravel company for 10 serious safety violations and $55,800 in proposed penalties after a worker was fatally engulfed by fly ash.The federal agency cited Central Ready Mix for 10 serious safety violations after a 39-year-old plant operator was engulfed in a fly-ash storage silo on Aug. 6, at the gravel company's location in Middletown, Ohio. The worker was attempting to break up clumps of fly ash that had clogged the bottom of a cone-shaped storage silo by standing outside of the silo and using a metal bar and air hose. When the bar...
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