Two Peoria companies among 4 cited by OSHA in fatal explosion in Springfield

SPRINGFIELD — Federal inspectors have cited four companies as part of an investigation into a fatal explosion last October at the Springfield Metro Sanitary District’s Sugar Creek plant. Roger Creason, 42, of Riverton, a longtime member of Laborers Local 477, died six days later from injuries he sustained in the accident. Creason was leak-testing joints inside a 54-inch round pipe when an inflatable “bladder” ruptured. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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