Despite a strong focus on personnel safety and an increasing focus on process safety, serious safety incidents continue to occur in oil and gas, petrochemicals, power generation, and other asset-intensive industries. Headline-grabbing examples from the past couple of years include the following: 1. The Kleen Energy explosion killed six workers and injured 50 in February 2010 in Mid-dletown, Connecticut. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its third-largest fine ever to the three construction companies building the plant for 371 safety violations, totaling $16.6 million in penalties. OSHA officials believe that the companies were attempting to earn a $ 19 million incentive for early completion, and reports state that employees had been working seven-day, 84-hour weeks. 2. The primary upgrader at CNRL's Horizon site at Fort MacKay suffered an explosion in January 2011, injuring five workers. The Horizon site also experienced fatalities in 2007 and 2008. The 2007 incident resulted in 53 occupational and health safety charges, the most charges ever in a workplace incident in Alberta.
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