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Local business: Feb. 22
Galesburg Register-Mail, IL
The RCR is the number of recordable cases per 100 full-time employees per year, as measured by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Smurfit-Stone has led the industry in safety performance for the last seven years. ...

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'Venue case' ends in verdict for companies
West Virginia Record, WV
"In addition to the approval of the design by ANSI, OSHA and NIOSH, Crown's evidence established that lower left leg injuries of this nature occurred only once in every 10000000 hours of machine use," Farrell said in an e-mail.

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Court upholds amusement ride violations after electrocution
Asbury Park Press, NJ
After Carpenter's death, Michael Brooks of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and David Hewitt, a subcode official with the DCA, investigated the incident, finding that three other employees had suffered electric shocks on the ...

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The Ultimate Bureaucrat: Paid $150000 to Do Nothing
AllGov, CA
Whitmore is the director of the recordkeeping system of the Occupational Safety and health Administration (OSHA). More than a year and a half ago, Whitmore got into an ugly dispute, complete with spitting, with his immediate boss, Joe DuBois, ...

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OSHA, NELTA to Develop Safety Training in New England
Occupational Health Safety, TX
Exposure to trenching, scaffolding, and electrical hazards are the focus of a new alliance between OSHA's Boston North Area Office and the New England Laborers' Training Academy (NELTA) in Hopkinton, Mass. The alliance will provide NELTA members and ...

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Letters: Revise workers' comp laws
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD
A wife and mother loses her husband to an accident where serious OSHA violations are deemed to have a direct bearing on the accident and subsequent death. She has two young children to care for, yet by South Dakota workers' compensation laws, ...

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