In both cases, prosecutors said, top foundry managers conspired to obstruct official investigations.
The second focused on the actions of foundry managers after an employee was run over by a forklift and killed in 2000.
The foundry operations manager's contribution to the value-chain of a fabless company is extensive and overarching, resulting in improved product development and supply management efficiencies.
The foundry's managers routinely dumped thousands of gallons of contaminated wastewater into the Delaware River, repeatedly exposed workers to unsafe conditions and regularly deceived environmental and workplace safety regulators, the indictment charges.
It was marketed by the foundry's sales manager Richard N McArthur as "the selling type supreme … it made big advertisements out of little ones".
In addition to McWane and Mr. Robison, last night's indictment names as defendants James Delk, the highest-ranking executive at McWane Cast Iron Pipe; Michael Devine, the foundry's plant manager; and Donald Bills, the plant engineer.
A24 Jury Convicts 4 Pipe Managers A federal jury found a New Jersey pipe foundry and four of its managers guilty of conspiring to evade workplace safety and environmental laws, tampering with evidence and bullying employees into silence about working conditions.
His father worked as an inventory manager at a foundry for 49 years.
"I just saw on the Internet that the Russians said they would take Syria's weapons of mass destruction if they would give them up, and destroy them," said Jim Ploskunak, 68, a retired manager of a foundry who lives in Charlo, Mont.
A federal jury found a New Jersey pipe foundry and four of its managers guilty yesterday of conspiring to evade workplace safety and environmental laws by lying to regulators, tampering with evidence and bullying employees into silence about dangerous working conditions.
