Didion Milling had "a pervasive culture of regulatory defiance and dishonesty" leading to the 2017 explosion and during the investigation that followed, a federal judge said.
Didion Milling agreed to pay more than $1.8 million in penalties for the Cambria plant explosion that killed five workers and injured more than a dozen others. .
Didion Milling, charged last year with several federal criminal charges along with six employees, has agreed to plead guilty to two charges involving falsified records.