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After 175 safety and health violations were discovered by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) from three confidential complaints, a $2 million fine has been issued against the Seattle-based company .

Across the three locations, L&I found 31 willful (when a business intentionally ignores a hazard or rule) serious violations, seven willful general violations, 94 serious, and more than 40 general violations. The total fine, $2,013,120, is among the largest in L&I history. The money collected from the fines is lined up for workers鈥� compensation supplemental pension fund, helping workers and families of those who have died on the job, according to the department.

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鈥淭he number and gravity of the hazards is staggering, one of the worst cases I鈥檝e ever seen,鈥� said Craig Blackwood, assistant director for L&I鈥檚 Division of Occupational Safety and Health, in a prepared statement. 鈥淭hey had safety meetings where they talked about and documented the hazards, but they never took any action.”

The Young Corporation produces and develops excavator equipment, with other locations including the Meltec Foundry division and the Nordick Manufacturing machine shop division in Woodinville. Violations included cranes that had not been inspected for years, damaged wire ropes and rigging, unqualified crane operators and riggers, machinery with no protective guards, crumbling and falling ceiling tiles that contained asbestos, roof leaks on or near electrical wiring, and workers eating, drinking, and smoking in the presence of toxic chemicals.

鈥淲e鈥檙e imposing significant penalties so workers鈥� lives are not put at risk again,鈥� Blackwood continued.

Employees were reportedly working amid noise levels so extreme that at some points, the levels couldn鈥檛 be registered on L&I鈥檚 noise meters, according to the Department of Labor. Workers were also exposed to dangerous chemicals at levels well beyond state or federal legal limits, including hexavalent chromium and crystalline silica. Hexavalent chromium exposure increases the risk of lung, nasal, and sinus cancer among other serious health effects. Crystalline silica exposure can lead to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and death.

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Young Corporation is the leading manufacturer of orange peel scrap grapples, clamshell buckets, and material handlers among other products often seen at scrap yards, recycling facilities, logging yards, and barges. The company was founded in 1902 when C.J. Young established a blacksmith shop in Seattle’s SODO district amid a booming logging industry.

Young Corporation has already filed an appeal.