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Discounted lives
The KC Star analyze the Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection database for the Kansas City metropolitan area, reviewed public records and interviewed more than 100 people in order to determine how well OSHA protects workers. The study found that OSHA fines employees in workers' deaths less than it should and downgrades its most serious violations in workers' deaths, hurting workers who are trying to sue employees. OSHA is behind in its safety standards.
Tags: CAR; worker safety; corruption; OSHA; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Kansas City; Missouri; health; inspections; workplace
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Violators: How they stack up
A Dayton Daily News computer analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Administration Records shows that from 1972 to 1990, Sparrows Point, a steel corporation, was inspected and cited 26 times in workers' deaths or serious-injury accidents. This is more than any other facility in the country. Employees say the company has put steel ahead of workers' lives. The records show the company violated government safety standards, failed to adequately train workers, and failed to at on employee complaints about hazards. This is part 2 of a 5 part series.
Tags: OSHA; Bethlehem Steel Facility; injury accidents; Occupational Safety and Health Administration Records; steel; hazards; safety practices; forklift; cranes; Sparrows Point; storage tank; carbon monoxide; OSHA violations; Armco Steel Corp; The Sorg Paper Co.; Dayton Walther Corp.; General Motors Corp.; Butler County Common Pleas Court; union; faulty breaks; steel corporations; amputations; burns; eye injury; concealing injuries
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Building a record of death
National Engineering & Co., a construction company in Ohio, came under fire in the early 1990s after recording eight worker deaths in 12 years. This rate was three and one-half times the construction industry's national average. In 1992, they were overseeing the construction of the Main Avenue Bridge, even though they had paid numerous legal settlements, including one to the family of a mother and daughter who died after a temporary bridge built by National collapsed as they were driving over it.
Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); National Engineering & Contracting Co.; construction accidents
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Die on the Job
The Arizona Republic reports that "If you die on the job, your company may be fined. But how much is a life worth? You won't like the answer.... It's not easy to place a value on human life. Juries have set its worth in the millions. Philosophers argue that life is priceless. In Arizona, however, a worker's life is worth a little less -- about $3,000. That's the median fine paid by Arizona companies for safety violations that contributed to the death of a worker, according to a computer analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Administration records...."
Tags: OSHA; accidental death; regulations
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Push for Workplace Safety Focuses on Falls
The Post-Dispatch reports that "Since 1974, 57 workers have died in falls in the St. Louis area--including 20 in the last six years. Falls were the No. 1 workplace killer in this region... Falls accounted for one-fourth of all workplace fatalities..."