LONGVIEW, Wash. (KPTV) – The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has fined Nippon Dynawave paper mill in Longview for an incident that happened a month before the deadly tank explosion.
L&I said the April 2026 incident happened when a tank valve was unintentionally left open, causing pulp that was about 145 degrees to spill onto the ground, creating a four-foot hole in the asphalt below.
A worker waded through the three-foot deep pulp to close the valve and stop the spill. After closing the valve, the worker stepped back to the ground and he fell into the hole…