OSHA joins forces with fertilizer industry to spread word about chemical safety
With the devastating April 2013 explosion in West, Texas still fresh in the minds of Americans, OSHA is hoping that a just-initiated partnership with the Agricultural Retailers Association and The Fertilizer Institute will help prevent future tragedies involving ammonium nitrate – the culprit in the West, Texas catastrophe.
OSHA plans to use its new partners to reach more than 7,000 agricultural retailers, distributers, producers and other facilities in the fertilizer industry with a letter from Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels that specifies legal requirements and best practice recommendations for safely storing and handling ammonium nitrate.