OSHA Cites Georgia Firm for Employees' Exposure to Lead
August 18, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Georgia battery recycling facility has been fined a total of $77,000 for what federal worker safety officials said was a failure to limit employees' exposure to lead.
The penalties assessed against Exide Technologies were announced on Aug. 4 by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
OSHA said the citations resulted from a Feb. 7 safety inspection at Exide's Frisco, Texas, facility, which employs 125 persons.
Exide was cited for a failure to ensure that individuals who worked more than eight hours in a day were not exposed to lead at levels beyond …
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