Alumina giant Alcoa has been fined $400,000 after a hot caustic solution burned school students on work experience and workers at a refinery.

Alumina giant Alcoa has been fined $400,000 after a hot caustic solution burned school students on work experience and workers at a refinery. A worker noticed a burning smell and found a faulty ...

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - -- An Alcoa-led joint venture says it is studying a $1.1 billion expansion of alumina output at its Australian Wagerup refinery, joining rival BHP Billiton in upping ...

US aluminium giant Alcoa has been fined $400,000 after work experience students suffered caustic burns at its Kwinana refinery. The incident occurred when a pump discharged a "hot caustic solution ...