Occupational Health News Roundup
The most prominent occupational health news this week is the tragic deaths of 29 workers from New Zealand’s Pike River coal mine. Celeste has already written about this, so I’ll just add my...
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A rock burst at a coal mine in China’s Henan province has killed a total of 10 miners. The explosion happened just after a minor 2.9-magnitude earthquake occurred nearby, and 45 workers were rescued...
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On Monday, President Obama nominated Thomas E. Perez to be the next Secretary of Labor. He introduced Perez by saying: Like so many Americans, Tom knows what it’s like to climb the ladder of...
View ArticleSafety equipment installed after the fact, too little, too late for Army...
Here we go again. Worker killed on-the-job. The employer decides—after the fact—-it would be smart to install a piece of safety equipment that likely would have prevented the death. That’s what...
View ArticlePrison term for Massey official, criminal probe of 2010 coal mine disaster...
A fourth official formerly associated with Massey Energy was sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison for conspiring to thwart federal mine safety laws. David C. Hughart, 54, appeared this week before U.S....
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Over the course of three days, three miners were killed on the job in West Virginia, Illinois, and Wyoming. Ken Ward Jr. describes their deaths in the Charleston Gazette: In the recent incidents,...
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