Georgia-Pacific is contesting claims of workplace safety violations that arose from an investigation into an accident that claimed an employee’s life in November.
Robert C. Dameron, 44, of Natural Bridge, died the night of Nov. 23 after he fell through a hole into a pulper tub and drowned at the company’s containerboard mill in Big Island, according to a citation and notification of penalty sent by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Virginia Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) compliance program.
VOSH issued two citations to the company May 19, with one of those citations broken into two items.
