U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss -- already facing heat for sharply questioning a whistleblower in a fatal sugar refinery accident outside Savannah -- toughened his criticism Friday by blaming the employee for the February explosion which killed 13 workers. Chambliss has suggested that vice president of operations Graham H. Graham, is trying to deflect his own responsibility by accusing Imperial Sugar Co. executives of resisting safety warnings about the company's plant in Port Wentworth. Graham worked at Imperial for just three months before the accident and says he repeatedly warned executives that the plant was dangerous.
