Taum Sauk staffing questioned decades before collapse

June 25th, 2007

By David A. Lieb

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

06/24/2007
JEFFERSON CITY — As Union Electric Co. prepared to open a mountaintop hydroelectric plant in 1963, some workers raised concerns about a staffing schedule that left no one onsite overnight to prevent potential problems from escalating into a disaster.

But state utility regulators sided with the electric company, ruling the plant was not inherently dangerous and required no overnight staff.   For the the rest of the story, click here.

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