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People & Business :: Corporate Social Responsibility

August 8, 2007

CSB: Inadequate Management Led to Synthron Blast

Nancy Seewald and Esther D’Amico

An explosion at Synthron’s Morganton, NC specialty chemical plant last year that killed one worker and injured several others was the result of “inadequate management of reactive chemical hazards,” says a final investigation report by the...

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