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OSHA Proposes Workplace Safety Fine For Columbus Castings

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published October 2, 2014 at 6:40 AM EDT

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing Columbus Castings pay an 89 thousand 500 dollar fine after a worker sustained a broken back, collapsed lung and partial leg paralysis at the company's South side plant last April.The worker was injured when he was pinned in a machine. This is the 11th time the company has been cited in the past 10 years. The company has yet to comment.  
 
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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