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Billion dollar mining company hasn’t paid fine for safety violations in 2010 deaths of two workers
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on June 21, 2012 Barrick Gold company was assessed a $447,600 civil penalty from the Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration following the fatal injury incident in August 2010 that killed two workers. The multi-national corporation has yet to pay the penalty, but you wouldn’t know that reading the firm’s annual Responsibility Report.
Upper Big Branch Families plead for Congressional action on mine safety
Posted by The Pump Handle on June 11, 2012 A delegation of family members who lost loved ones in Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine met with senators and representatives of both political parties to urge them to pass legislation for stronger penalties for upper-level officials who violate safety laws.
Young widow ‘felt like a fool’ waiting to hear from OSHA
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on May 24, 2012 Six months after Maureen Revetta’s husband, Nick, 32, was killed by an explosion at the U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, PA, she was still waiting to hear from the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Americans say they respect life and the rule of law, but not so much when it involves workers’ lives and safety hazards
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on May 15, 2012 The AFL-CIO’s annual “Death on the Job” report presents the painful truth that the penalty for employers who violate safety rules that lead to worker fatalities, is woefully inadequate. Our nation’s rhetoric about respect for life seems not to apply to working people who face serious hazards on-the-job.
“Jared did everything right”
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on May 11, 2012 During a recent visit to Dallas, TX, family members who’ve lost loved
ones from fatal work-related injuries heard something shocking from
major U.S. corporation’s vice president for safety.
Unguarded machines, a worker is dead, and workplace with model safety program promises to have a model safety program
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on April 19, 2012 Beau Griffing remembers how proud his mom Kristine, 52, was of the work she did at the Eaton Corporation’s Kearney, Nebraska facility. He told a local reporter how she loved taking him and his siblings to the plant to show them where she worked. “She provided so much for us,” Beau Griffing said. “She wanted…
This Sunshine Week, still waiting for OSHA to improve worker fatality info
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on March 14, 2012 To mark Sunshine Week, the annual initiative to promote freedom of information and government openness, I’m examining OSHA’s performance in disclosing information about worker fatality cases. My interest in this particular transparency issue stems back to the first year of the Obama Administration, when in October 2009, a new feature appeared front-and-center on federal OSHA’s…
Worker fatality in my hometown results in $12,000 penalty, third chance for employer to improve safety
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on February 24, 2012 On July 27, 2011, just a few miles from my home in San Marcos, TX, Mr. Margarito Guardado Resinos, 34, and Mr. Nelson Pineda were working together to erect a pre-engineered steel building frame on property owned by Thermon Manufacturing. The workers were employed by Jetka Steel Erectors of Katy, TX, a firm hired by…
Worker fatality in my hometown, the story before the story
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on August 5, 2011 Earlier this week, I reported on the death of Margarito Guardado Resinos, 34, at a construction project in my hometown of San Marcos, TX. Mr. Resinos employer, Jetka Steel Erectors, had been inspected by OSHA in December 2010, at a different construction site, and received citations in May 2011 for four serious violations of safety…
Fatal worker injury in my hometown
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on August 3, 2011 Margarito Guardado Resinos, 34, and Nelson Pineda were working together to erect a pre-engineered steel building frame at a construction site in San Marcos, TX. The two were employed by Jetka Steel Erectors of Katy, TX, a firm hired by Bailey Elliot Construction of Austin to erect a new building for Thermon Manufacturing at the…