Number	22661
Subject	Airports
Source	USA Today (McLean, Va.)
State	VA
Year	2005
Publication Date	02/24/2005
Summary	The story revealed that federal airport screeners have the highest injury rate in the nation; injuries were causing screeners to miss about 250,000 work days a year; some of those absences led to screeners missing training, and violating a federal law requiring all checked luggage to go through bomb-detection machines. The story also found that the Transportation Security Administration had known about the injury problem for more than a year but had taken little action to improve the situation.
Category	Computer-Assisted Reporting
Pages	7
Keywords	airports;luggage handlers;injury;Transportation Security Administration;safety conditions;Occupational Health and Safety Administration
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