OSHA finds machine safety violations at Prairie State Generating Company four times in less than five years, company fined more than $67K

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OSHA finds machine safety violations at Prairie State Generating Company four times in less than five years, company fined more than $67K

The following press release was published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Aug. 3, 2016. It is reproduced in full below.

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Background: Prairie State Energy Campus includes a coal-fired generating plant and adjacent coal mine. The facility generates 1,600 megawatts of power, with 100 percent of the output dedicated to nine Midwestern-based public power utilities that provided energy to 2.5 million homes.

To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Fairview Heights Area Office at 618-632-8612.

Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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