One killed, two injured during maintenance of PET line

摘要

One worker was killed and two others seriously injured on 6 December at DAK Americas’ Columbia site in Gaston, South Carolina, says parent Alpek (Monterrey, Mexico). Alpek did not provide specific details of the incident, which occurred during maintenance of a production line that DAK operates and maintains for Eastman Chemical (Kingsport, Tennessee). “Based on the information we have at this time, we do not expect there to be any customer impact, " says Eastman.