CSB reverses policy, will name names of chemical accident victim
Had stopped so companies wouldn't have implied culpability
Under pressure from worker safety advocates, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has decided to return to a policy of including the names of deceased workers in its investigative reports.
The CSB, an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical incidents, has included names of fatally injured workers in its reports since 2014. The agency changed its policy in June with the release of a report about a 2014 fatal blowout at a Pryor Trust gas well in Oklahoma and a 2018 chemical release at a DuPont fertilizer plant in LaPorte. Nine workers died in those two incidents, but none of them were named in the CSB report.