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Peroxide leak occurs at Woodland Pulp mill

Following a toxic gas exposure incident in January, which caused the deaths of two workers, the Woodland Pulp mill experienced another accident on Saturday, March 7. The January 27 exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas occurred when the mill was shutting down operations because of the high price...

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Second mill worker dies from gas exposure

A second worker at the Woodland Pulp mill has died following exposure to a toxic gas on January 27. Allen Hornberger, 26, had been hospitalized in critical condition for nearly three weeks before succumbing on February 17. Hornberger, who lived in Lee ...

Worker dies after exposure to gas at Woodland Pulp mill

A student intern working at the Woodland Pulp mill has died and another worker was critically injured following exposure to a toxic gas at the mill's bleach plant on Tuesday, January 27, when the mill was in the process of shutting operations down because of a large spike in natural gas prices.

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