The Nuclear Regulatory Commission planned to hold a predecisional enforcement conference at agency headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Sept. 22 as part of a continuing investigation of a fatal fire BWX Technologies’ Lynchburg, Va., facility in 2020.
The commission announced the planned meeting in a notice dated Monday and posted online. No one from BWX Technologies was listed as a meeting participant.
On June 19, 2020, a flash fire killed a BWXT employee in the Lynchburg facility’s supercompactor facility. The employee was pronounced dead at the scene by an emergency response team.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission subsequently reported that the employee died because of a once-prohibited practice of crushing drums containing flammable rags: something BWX Technologies disallowed at the supercompactor for years after a similar fire in 2007.
