BP Texas and U.S. OSHA memo settlement
A BP spokesman declined to discuss the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) memo that details a record fine slapped on the company last year for safety violations at its Texas City, Texas, refinery.
The memo was provided by Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s office dated Feb. 26 and first published by the Toledo Blade newspaper.
The more than $3 million in fines memo was filed [ID:nN08187710] by OSHA against BP joint-venture refinery on Monday in Ohio and was by OSHA chief David Michaels and acting deputy solicitor of the department Deborah Greenfield for U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
OSHA hit BP with $87.4 million safety violations fine in October after of an explosion that injured 180 other people and killed 15 workers at the Texas City refinery on Macrh 2005.
According to OSHA, BP had failed to settle errors found after the 2005 explosion and quoted new worker safety violations found in inspections conducted in 2009. The energy giant has contested the fines before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC).
Solis and OSHA have also talked about the oversees a criminal probation BP entered after pleading guilty to a Clean Air Act violation stemming from the explosion, a violations with the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas.
