You're thinking of the President of IBC's Engineered Materials Division, Mark Doelling, who was fired the day before the abysmal OSHA inspection results came out.
Doelling needed to go. Between the horrid earnings numbers for his division, coupled with the OSHA report - he deserved to be fired. They have an expression around IBC, and it speaks to Mark Smith's shrewd leadership syle - "It's Mark's way, or the parkway".
Doelling was sent down the road packing.
We're now seeing a NioCorp renaissance. Perhaps the IBC rebirth is around the corner.