ASSE backs CSB’s rebuke of Florida for failing to adopt recommendations (7/21)
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has publicly expressed its agreement with the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) that Florida’s failure to adopt worker safeguards in the wake of a deadly methanol fire and explosion is “unacceptable.”
In a statement released yesterday, the ASSE commended the CSB for “its commitment to the safety and health of thousands of Florida’s state, county and municipal workers.” The recommendations made by the CSB followed an investigation into a January 2006 methanol fire and explosion at the Bethune Wastewater Treatment plant in Daytona Beach that killed two public workers and seriously injured a third.