OSHA has proposed $124,780 in penalties and citations for nine major violations by Arch Wood Protection Inc. and $53,574 in proposed penalties and citations for four major violations against Mullins Mechanical & Welding LLC related to hazards at a Wood treatment chemical manufacturing facility in Conley, Georgia, the Labor Department said Tuesday.
Screening tests by the Georgia Poison Centers found that workers employed by Arch Wood Protection had elevated levels of arsenic. The employer was accused of exposing its workers to inorganic arsenic up to 20 times the permissible limit, among other alleged violations, according to…