Compost company fined in poisonous gas deaths of two workers

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 23:30 in Health & Medicine

Community Recycling & Resource Recovery must pay more than $166,000 over brothers' deaths at a Kern County facility. The state cites failures to give proper training and test for dangerous levels of gas.State workplace safety regulators issued more than $166,000 in fines Wednesday against a prominent recycling and compost company than runs a Kern County site where two brothers died last fall from exposure to poisonous gas.

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