Gov. Gavin Newsom said California officials are starting to review safety records of the aerospace firm whose pressurized tank nearly exploded with a toxic chemical over the Memorial Day weekend, as well as other similar chemical plants.
“Obviously, all of us are now reviewing, and have been in real time, the safety records, not only of this site, but looking more broadly at other chemicals at other sites,” Newsom said in response to a question from The Times at a news conference where he signed an elections bill Wednesday. The review is “particularly highlighted by what happened tragically in Washington state, as well.”
The massive rupture of a chemical tank at a paper mill in Longview, Wash., led to the deaths of two people, with nine people missing and eight others injured, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said there was no hope of finding more survivors of the Tuesday accident at Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. It was one of the deadliest U.S. workplace accidents in years…