OSHA lowers fine for Formosa Plastics as part of settlement
OSHA has agreed to reduce Formosa Plastics Corporation’s penalty from $361,500 to $300,000 in a settlement of citations the agency issued after an explosion at the company's Illiopolis, Ill., plant last April took the lives of five workers.
In return, Formosa agreed to employ at least one independent, qualified consultant with expertise in chemical process safety management to work with design engineers on a new Formosa facility and to work with software engineers to reduce the possibility of human error at a new plant now under consideration by the company. Many of OSHA's citations issued after the investigation centered on process safety management deficiencies.