Taum Sauk staffing concerns raised in '63

Saturday, June 23, 2007

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- 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.

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