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...automaker's image has suffered back-to-back black eyes. Last week the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Chrysler $1.6 million for 811 alleged workplace violations at a Newark, Del., plant that produces Chrysler LeBarons, Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliants. The penalty, the largest ever imposed by OSHA, came only twelve days after a U.S. grand jury indicted Chrysler for selling cars as new that had actually been driven -- with their odometers disconnected -- by employees...
...most serious of the OSHA citations involved charges that Chrysler knowingly exposed employees at the Delaware plant to dangerous levels of lead and arsenic. OSHA Assistant Secretary John Pendergrass said the conditions "put workers in jeopardy" and called the agency's action the "only possible response to a totally unacceptable situation." Though the company did not admit any wrongdoing, it will pay the fine and correct the problems. Gerald Greenwald, chairman of Chrysler Motors, the carmaking division, noted that the Delaware facility was not typical of the company's factories. Said he: "Risk of injury or illness to our employees...
...August, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began to investigate Union Carbide, after a leak of the toxic chemical Aldicarb at the company's Institute, W. Va., plant left 141 people hospitalized. Last week OSHA levied a $1.4 million fine against the Danbury, Conn.-based firm for "willful disregard for health and safety" at the Institute plant. It was the largest penalty imposed by OSHA in its 16-year history...
...OSHA's probe resulted in 221 charges of safety violations against the company. Carbide President Robert Kennedy, who said the fine would be appealed, contended that most of OSHA's accusations were "entirely unjustified" and that no infractions were "willful...
...OSHA does not have the resources to monitor industries for levels of arsenic, nor to research the long-term effects of worker exposure to low levels of airborne arsenic. And it is incapable of even establishing new safety standards. Even if OSHA did feel, finally, that gallium arsenic technology should be taken off the market, it would not have the power to do so. OSHA can only prescribe safety standards--it cannot out-law certain types of technology. Thus, barring a public outcry against the technology, production of chips seems destined to follow the inexorable and fatal growth pattern...