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UPDATED: Worker Electrocuted At Augusta Chemical Plant

FIRST ON 6: Death Being Investigated At Augusta Industrial Plant

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41-year-old Stacy Fincher of Saluda, SC was electrocuted while working at DSM Chemical in Augusta Tuesday morning.


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***UPDATED at 2:55 P.M. on September 13th***

Stacey Fincher has been with Austin Industries, the parent company of DSM Chemical, since 1992. Not all of that time was spent working in the building in which he died.

According to a Austin Industries spokesperson, Lori Breckage...at the DSM plant, Fincher had performed more than 1 million man hours without a recordable injury.

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating the death of an employee at an Augusta chemical plant Tuesday morning.

Richmond County Coroner Grover Tuten says the victim was 41-year-old Stacy A. Fincher of Saluda, SC.

Fincher was working on electrical equipment when he came into contact with a high-voltage line just before 9:00 Tuesday morning. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead just after 9:30 AM.

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