MarkWest: Two companies cited for fatal fire at local natural gas processing plant

Two companies have been each been fined about $50,000 for a deadly fire that occurred at a natural gas processing facility outside of Pittsburgh in December. The fines were announced Tuesday in a press release from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. MarkWest Logistics Services, which operates the gas processing facility, faces penalties totaling $47,360. The West Virginia-based Energy Transportation LLC, who was the employer of the man killed in the fire,...