According to L&I inspectors, company employees were exposed to silica quartz dust at 3.4 times the permissible limit during stone slab grinding operations.
Dec 23, 2015
Wall to Wall Tile & Stone of Vancouver, Wash., has been fined $261,000 because employees were exposed to silica dust and other health hazards associated with stone slab grinding, the Washington state Department of Labor & Industries announced Dec. 22. L&I cited the company for seven “failure to abate” serious violations after its follow-up inspection found it had not corrected violations for which it was cited during November 2014.
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