WIPP should have reported when 2 miners were stuck in hoist, board says

By ExchangeMonitor

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant should have reported a Jan. 23 incident, where two miners were stuck up to 30 minutes in a waste hoist lowering them underground, to the Department of Energy’s accident reporting system, a federal safety watchdog says. “Site…

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