U.S. Chemical Safety Board says Ames Goldsmith workers not required to wear respirators or gas monitors during decommissioning

Federal investigation details deadly chemical release at West Virginia facility

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal investigation into the April chemical release at Ames Goldsmith Catalyst Refiners has detailed how a combination of chemicals being disposed of during the facility's shutdown

U.S. Chemical Safety Board says Ames Goldsmith workers not required to wear respirators or gas monitors during decommissioning

CSB releases update into its investigation into April chemical reaction that claimed the lives of 2 workers at Kanawha County plant site. The post U.S. Chemical Safety Board says Ames Goldsmith workers not required to wear respirators or gas monitors during decommissioning appeared first on WV MetroNews.

Ames Goldsmith workers lacked safety protections before deadly plant leak, federal investigation finds

Workers at an Institute chemical plant weren’t required to wear respirators or carry gas monitors that could have warned them about toxic fumes before a leak killed two employees and injured more than a dozen others earlier this year, according to federal investigators.  The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released new details about its investigation of the April chemical leak at the Ames Goldsmith Catalyst Refiners facility …

WV chemical plant didn’t require workers to wear respirators during deadly incident, CSB report says

Station 80 Nitro Fire Department assisted Institute Fire Rescue with operations at the chemical leak at Catalyst Refiners in Institute, West Virginia, on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Photo by Nitro Fire Department)A Kanawha County chemical plant where two employees died and four others were critically injured in April after a highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas was released did not require workers to wear respirators while decommissioning the facil…

Federal investigators provide update in probe of deadly Catalyst Refiners chemical release

A U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigation is shedding new light on a deadly April release of hydrogen sulfide at the Catalyst Refiners site in Institute.

U.S. Chemical Safety Board releases investigation update in deadly chemical incident at Institute plant

INSTITUTE, W.Va. — An update into the investigation of the chemical incident that claimed two lives at a Kanawha County plant site in April shows workers were not required to wear respirators or personal gas monitors during the decommissioning of the facility. Two views of the incident tank. (Photo/CSB) The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released the…