PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 10, 2026
Federal officials have launched a second investigation into a January gas leak at a Baileyville paper mill that killed a University of Maine student and injured nine other workers. Kasie Malcolm, 20, a chemical engineering student at UMaine who was born in Japan and grew up in Sanford, died hours after the incident occurred at Woodland Pulp. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, an independent federal agency, announced its investigation into the incident in a news release Monday. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has also initiated its own investigation.