My sympathy to the families of the victims. I hope this is investigated thoroughly.

On the national news

This is probably the first of several tragedies to come.

Thanks for posting.

This is probably the first of several tragedies to come.

Worker safety is primarily governed by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) rather than federal OSHA, because Washington is an "OSHA-approved State Plan" state.

It is my understanding that regulations here were more stringent than required by Feds long before the felon rolled back regulations and generally decimated OSHA. I don't see the Democratic state legislature rolling anything back here, but would need to do more research.

Washington is majority Democrat in both the House and Senate.

My condolences to the victims families

“released white liquor, a highly destructive chemical mixture used in the paper industry. ”

Burns through clothes and skin and bone into the blood stream.

Sounds like napalm.

“contamination had entered the river on Tuesday, officials said, and dead carp were found”

Very bad news it’s in the Columbia river.

Rec

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/live-updates-from-deadly-paper-mill-implosion-in-longview/



I fear the nine missing are likely dead.

Updates. See the link for details

6:44 pm
West Coast chemical emergencies raise questions about the safety of massive industrial tanks

6:00 pm
At least 5 implosion survivors discharged from hospitals

5:44 pm
Federal investigators looking into pulp mill tank implosion

4:22 pm
No evidence of airborne contamination from implosion

1:29 pm
Contamination reached the Columbia River, officials say

3:12 pm
Timber industry shares condolences

2:11 pm
Environmental group plans to host Tacoma vigil, picket

1:59 pm
The 'blast' occurred during a shift change

1:40 pm
Watch: Press conference updates from Gov. Ferguson

1:16 pm
This could be 'the deadliest industrial tragedy' in modern WA history

1:14 pm
Recovery effort, not a rescue effort

12:02 pm
2 confirmed killed in Longview implosion

10:50 am
What questions do you have about the Longview chemical implosion?

10:24 am
Officials indicate 'no belief' there are rescues to make

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Industry accidents to happen? There was that chemical tank in CA last week too.

There have not been any relaxing in safety regulations that I’m aware of. There are more regulations involving rail safety coming on in the next year.

As Trump is president even more corps will push the safety factor for more profit

and they hate OSHA, so if this was one of theirs regulations could have been pushed to the limits.

Ie. do this, do do this, use this number.

You don’t push it to the “limits”. The limit is the regulation. You are in violation or not. There is not degrees of violation up to the regulations.