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Grain bin deaths are preventable but keep happening
Posted by Liz Borkowski on November 1, 2012
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Suffocating to death in grain silos is an alarmingly common way for farmworkers to die. Prevention is simple, so why do these deaths continue?
Dangerous workplaces are BAD for business, grain elevator closed following worker deaths
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on December 8, 2011 The next time you hear someone claim that worker safety regulations and OSHA hurt job growth and hinder small businesses, remind them about Haasbach, LLC. On July 28, 2010, two workers (Wyatt Whitebread, 14, and Alex Pacas, 19) were killed at a grain handling facility owned by Haasbach, when the young workers were engulfed in…