WestRock fined for COVID-19 infections at Washington paper mill

Atlanta-based WestRock is facing nearly $140,000 in fines after one of its paper mill workers died and more than a dozen machine operators got sick with COVID-19 in March and April of this year. The infections occurred at the company’s paper mill in Longview, Washington, which it had acquired from KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. in 2018.