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• Occupational Health News Roundup

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  Lt. Col. Jim Gentry was exposed to the carcinogen hexavalanet chromium while stationed as an Indiana National Guardsman at the Qarmat Ali water plant in Iraq. Now, he has died of lung cancer at age 52. As we’ve written before , contractor KBR was in charge of the facility and failed to address the extensive ...
  4 days ago

• Revelations in tower antenna worker’s death

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  In April-May 2008, there were a spate of fatalities involving workers doing installations or maintenance on cell phone towers.  I blogged about seven of these worker deaths  and promised to report back on the outcome of the Federal or State OSHA investigations.   Of the seven fatal incidents, three were resulted ...
  5 days ago

• Diacetyl saga continues, still dangerous, substitutes may be too

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  One of my all-time favorite investigative journalist and public health heroes, Andrew Schneider , is writing for the new AOL News venture: Sphere .     Schneider is exceptional because of the dogged way he pursues topics and sticks with them over the long haul—not a couple of weeks or a few months, but for ...
  1 week ago

• Open letter to OMB Reg Czar Cass Sunstein

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  by Rena Steinzor, cross-posted from CPRBlog What Progressives Expect from OIRA: An Open Letter to Cass Sunstein Dear Cass: As you know, we picked a spat with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) last week over Randy Lutter’s supposedly temporary detail appointment to your office.  It’s ...
  1 week ago

• Is MSHA speaking clearly on coal dust limit?

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  by Ken Ward, Jr., cross-posted from Coal Tattoo I checked out the Web chat that Joe Main, assistant labor secretary in charge of the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), had this afternoon to discuss the MSHA portion of the Department of Labor’s regulatory agenda .  Mostly, I was hoping that Main ...
  1 week ago

• Occupational Health News Roundup

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  The New York Times’ Tara Parker-Pope , writing in the paper’s Well blog, reports on a survey of recent medical school graduates who trained to become surgeons. Johns Hopkins University researchers found that 59% of the grads reported having been stuck by a needle at least once during medical school, and roughly ...
  1 week ago

• Good news, bad news in Solis’ regulatory agenda

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  The first regulatory agenda under OIRA chief Cass Sunstein was published today in the Federal Register [ link to its 237 pages .]  The document includes a narrative of Labor Secretary Solis’ vision for worker health and safety, mentioning these specific hazards: crystalline silica, beryllium, coal dust, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Worker killed at Valero Energy, an OSHA VPP site

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  The Houston Chronicle’s Cindy George reports on the explosion last night (12/4) at Valero Energy’s Texas City, TX refinery.   One worker, Tommy Manis, 40, was killed and two other workers were injured.  The site is one of OSHA’s designated Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) sites , but I was not able to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senator Brown urges OSHA action on diacetyl

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is urging Labor Secretary Solis to expedite rulemaking to protect workers from exposure to diacetyl.  In a letter dated November 25 , the Senator writes: “I am concerned that OSHA has not acted fast enough to compel employers to reduce workplace exposures to this deadly additive.” ...
  2 weeks ago

• David Michaels Confirmed to Head OSHA

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  Last night, the Senate confirmed David Michaels as the new Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. Congratulations, David! All of us at George Washington University and The Pump Handle will miss working with you, but we’re eager to see an OSHA where the top leadership is dedicated to ...
  2 weeks ago

• MSHA fails to correct hostile work environment

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  Caution: for adult eyes only. I’ve just read a horrendous case of an employer’s failing to correct a hostile work environment with glaring and gross instances of sexual harassment.  The employer? The U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration.  The victim is Ms. Heather Smith, an MSHA ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breaking news from MSHA: black lung is bad

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  For the last several weeks, MSHA officials have been planning a series of public events to launch a campaign to end black lung disease.  The first event was held this morning in Beckley, WV , and the Charleston Gazette’s Ken Ward allowed me to feel like I was attending the event by providing a live-feed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texas inmate in wheelchair escapes – on foot – WTF?

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Texas prisons run by people dumber than the inmates.
  2 weeks ago

• The Usual Suspect

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Dont go friggin near him! WTF Houston? A Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate, being transported between jails, has managed to pull out a gun, hijack the van, steal one of the officer’s gray correctional uniforms and black boots and escape with four guns, including a 12 gauge shotgun while in a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Editors, Words, and Being Present in the World

  
  GARY PRESLEY — Authority: 116
  Illustration of Quasimodo from Wikipedia I have been surprised by some of the reaction to an essay of mine that appeared in the Sunday, November 29, 2009, issue of The New York Times . The essay came out on the page at over 2500 words, and the Times keeps Modern Love essays to 1800 words. I worked with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sign of bad things to come from Obama’s OMB: Sunstein hires staunch anti-reg economist

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  I’ve already complained about the slow pace of regulatory change on OHS issues in the now 10-month old Obama Administration, but my mind sunk when I heard yesterday this news:  OMB/OIRA’s regulatory czar Cass Sunstein has hired for his reg review team economist Randall Lutter, PhD.  The DC think tank crowd ...
  2 weeks ago

• Occupational Health News Roundup

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  Over the weekend, an explosion ripped through the Xinxing mine in the northeastern China province of Heilongjiang. Five hundred workers were underground at the time, and 107 of them have now been declared dead. Marianne Barriaux reports for AFP : Press reports quoted Zhao Tiechui, deputy head of the state work ...
  3 weeks ago

• Worker death in my hometown, Arlington County Virginia

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  Early in the morning on Thanksgiving eve, just a few miles from my house in Arlington County, Virginia,  Mr. James Bea, 59, was killed on the job.   Mr. Bea and his county-employee co-worker were working at the site of a water main break.  They were removing a set of temporary lights that had been erected to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Short term investors

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 136
  “ Managing the Unavoidable: investment implications of a changing climate ”, is a new report, that summarises findings from a project launched in January 2009 to identify how companies and their investors are likely to be affected by the physical impacts of climate change. The report, produced by Henderson Global ...
  3 weeks ago

• DOL IG releases more info on Martin County coal waste impoundment, redactions continue

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 529
  reported by Mine Safety and Health News : Martin County: New Information  Released, But Information on Mine Seals Still  Redacted A Labor Dept.’s Inspector General report on  the whistle-blower complaints surrounding the 2000 Martin County Coal Co.  impoundment failure in Kentucky, verifies a change in ...
  4 weeks ago

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