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Aaron Bunch

Alcoa fined after students, workers burned at refinery

A manufacturing giant has been fined after students and staff were burned at a refinery. (HANDOUT/APPLE)

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 pump emitting smoke and debris at the US-listed company's Kwinana alumina refinery near Perth, Worksafe WA says.

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