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    ‘This stuff can eat your skin’: Paper mill worker talks about dangers of the job

    The implosion of a liquor storage tank at Nippon Dynawave mill, which killed several employees, raises urgent safety concerns as investigators continue to review. LONGVIEW, Wash. — The questions haunting investigators at the Nippon Dynawave paper mill are the same ones that trouble Mickie Dearing: How does a tank that big simply implode — and why didn’t anyone see it coming? Dearing spent three years at the Packaging Corporation of America plant in the Tri-Cities area of central Washington, about 250 miles upriver from the site of Tuesday’s deadly incident on the banks of the Columbia River. He performed the…