DuPont and a senior employee plead guilty to criminal negligence
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Rebecca Trager2023-05-02T14:42:00
$16 million in fines and probation related to fatal methyl mercaptan leak at La Porte, US
More than eight years after a major methyl mercaptan leak at a DuPont plant in La Porte, US, killed four employees and injured others, the company and the head of its Insecticide Business Unit (IBU) have both pleaded guilty to criminal negligence.