The federal security regulation authority in the workplace has a fine of 156,700 US dollars after a General Dynamics facility in Hampton Explosion there last year that was killed An employee and injured two more.
According to the professional and health administration websiteThe three employees “used” smoke composition material in aluminum pyrotechnics vessels when an explosion appeared “, shortly after 8 a.m. on July 3, 2024.
General Dynamics operates a military ammunition factory in 880,000 square meters far outside of Camden, where it produces weapons such as the Hydra-70 rocket and the Hellfire and Javelin missiles.
The Osha opened an investigation on the same day and published 12 quotes against the company at the beginning of this year for violations of the security regulations of the federal offer. Eight of these 12 led to a fine of $ 16,131 near the maximum. The other four led 6,913 US dollars.
According to the website, General Dynamics denies Osha's results. A spokesman for General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems did not give back a phone call to requested a comment. A person in the Little Rock Osha office said that the agency had not discussed any open or closed cases and that additional information would require a FOIA request.
The notes contained in one of the quotes showed that the Osha was of the opinion that General Dynamics had not updated the operating procedures in order to reflect the “current company practice”.
In the notes it also states that the employer did not list isopropyl alcohol in this section in a section on “automated smoke tube loading”. However, the employees used isopropyl alcohol for cleaning purposes.
The notes of another quote stated that General Dynamics did not take into account how smoke power in its risk analysis would react to heat, static electricity, effects or other external forces, and there were also written procedures for managing changes in the formulation of the smoke powder.
According to a security work sheet published by the Ministry of Health of New Jersey, isopropyl alcohol forms explosive mixtures with aluminum when they are heated and is also not compatible with oxidizing agents such as perchlorate.
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