Nearly five months after the May 26 tank failure at Nippon Dynawave Packaging that killed 11 workers, the estates of two men have filed wrongful death suits against the mill, Weyerhaeuser and the North Pacific Paper Corporation, also known as NORPAC.
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A company statement says context is missing from the federal report.
The tank that failed in May and killed 11 workers had been repaired in 2011 and 2017, according to a recent U.S. Chemical and Hazard Investigation Board meeting, but not within the 10 months it was noted that its walls were thinning.