Valero, contractors fined for violations related to worker's death in 2021
Valero, contractors fined for violations related to worker's death in 2021
Valero Energy and three contractors have been fined a total $1.75 million for safety violations related to a worker's death on Nov. 12, 2021 at its 145,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Benicia, California, a state regulator said on Thursday.
The 35-year-old worker had died from suffocating in a confined space in which leaking argon, an odorless gas, had displaced oxygen, the California Division of Oc...