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Plant Fined For Exposing Employees To High Levels Of Lead

By Maureen Mespell
May 2, 2012 Updated May 2, 2012 at 5:51 PM EDT

Fort Wayne, IN (Indiana's NewsCenter) -- Johnson Controls, which operates a battery plant in Fort Wayne, has been fined nearly $200,000 for exposing employees to higher than permissible levels of lead at their Springfield Township Plant in Ohio.

OSHA officials say they found eleven serious violations at the Ohio facility this past October.



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