Abstract
THE CHEMICAL SAFETY & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) will move ahead with a previously canceled community meeting in Institute, W.Va., where it will present on April 23 preliminary results of its investigation of last August’s fatal accident at the Bayer CropScience plant. CSB routinely holds such community hearings to explain its findings. But this meeting put the independent board between community members, who are concerned about their safety and the accident’s cause, and Bayer officials, who say the meeting might release facility-specific, “sensitive security information” that could aid terrorists. The plant is covered by the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), a 2002 antiterrorism law that Bayer cited when it urged CSB to cancel the meeting (C&EN, March 16, page 40). CSB agreed at first, Chairman John Bresland explains, but upon closer examination found that MTSA regulates transportation, not plant-specific processes. CSB, in negotiation with the Department of Homeland Security, developed ...
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