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Occupational Health News Roundup
Posted by Liz Borkowski on March 19, 2013 President Obama nominates Thomas E. Perez for Secretary of Labor; a new study finds that Camp Lejeune water supplies had even more contamination that previously reported; and temp workers in China face worse conditions than permanent employees.
Occupational Health News Roundup
Posted by Liz Borkowski on November 9, 2011 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 after 36 hours underground – although two of those workers later died of their injuries. Last month, a gas explosion at…
Occupational Health News Roundup
Posted by Liz Borkowski on November 24, 2010 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 encourgement to visit the New Zealand Herald’s photos and short profiles of the 29 miners: Conrad Adams, Malcolm Campbell, Glen Cruse, Allan…