Confined Space

IN CASE YOU'VE SOMEHOW MISSED THE NEWS, CONFINED SPACE IS BACK AFTER A SHORT 10-YEAR BREAK WHILE I WAS WORKING IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND AT OSHA. It can now be found at: http://jorda...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2017/03/were-back-and-weve-moved.html

As I mentioned in last week's farewell post (here , if you missed it), I will try to keep you up to date on places you can go to find similar information and analysis. Here's the first installmen...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/beyond-confined-space.html

As I mentioned last night, this will be my last Confined Space post. Next week I start work at the House Education and Labor Committee. If you're on line now (9:00 - 11:00 pm EST), welcome. Plea...

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Guests at last night's State of the Union address didn't just include basketball players and Iraq war veterans. One guest -- who has the most gripping story to tell -- was ignored by the Presiden...

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William Safire in the NY Times Magazine last Sunday has more to say about the name change at my future employer, the House Education and LABOR Committee: > Who says the 110th House of R...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/whats-in-name-part-ii.html

This is incredibly hard for me, but tomorrow night will be my last blog post on Confined Space. After much deliberation, I’ve decided to take a new job that makes it impossible to continue. S...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/moving-on-closing-up-shop.html

Les Skramstad died Sunday. He was 70. I often complain about how workplace fatalities get very little press. Every couple of weeks, Tammy and I publish the Weekly Toll, a partial list of worker...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/libby-asbestos-activist-dies-residents.html

Eric Moreno is an extremely lucky guy. He was running some sewer pipe down in an unshored 7-8 foot deep trench last week when it collapsed on top of him. He could only breathe because the brim o...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/hazardous-trenches-good-luck-and-bad_23.html

Check out the Weekly Toll below and you'll find a familiar entry at the top: a worker crushed to death in a trench collapse . But how could employers know that a trench would collapse? OSHA's t...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/nothing-new-about-trench-collapses.html

Julie Ferguson at Workers Comp Insider has a very nice piece on our Weekly Toll : > Every other week, our blog neighbor Tammy at Confined Space compiles > a list of news storie...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/chilling-reading.html

It hadn't really occurred to me until I read this article, but cashiers at the little grocery store across from our apartment in Paris last Christmas did something almost unheard of in American g...

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A partial list of workers killed in American workplaces over the last several weeks. Worker dies after trench collapses Greenwich, CT - A 59-year-old groundskeeper died yesterday afternoon foll...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/weekly-toll-death-in-american_21.html

As long as I've been in this business, there are some things I just don't understand. Like this: Earlier this week, the CalOSHA standards board decided not to issue an emergency temporary standar...

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The Anchorage Daily News was as upset as we were by (former) Governor Frank Murkowski's pardon of a company convicted of negligent homicide in the 1999 death of a backhoe operator on a Cordova h...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/no-mercy-for-alaska-governor-who.html

The Baker Panel's report on the safety culture at BP's North American refineries prompted Lisa Margonelli to discuss in the NY Times Pipeline blog (Times Select required) what its like for Texan...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/whats-it-like-to-live-near-refinery.html

I reported yesterday on the release of the Baker Panel's 374 page report on the sad state of BP's safety system at its North American refineries. I want to go back and discuss on aspect of the r...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/straw-men-more-thoughts-on-baker-bp.html

I wrote last July about serious workplace safety hazards in an Iowa Kosher meatpacking plant, revealed in an article in Forward. In response to the allegations, two Conservative Jewish organizat...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/jewish-organizations-fight-for-worker.html

The Baker Panel, investigating the "safety culture" at BP's five North American refineries, issued its 374 page report today blasting the giant oil company for putting production targets, oper...

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I wrote yesterday about the death of two coal miners, James D. Thomas, 48, of North Tazewell, Va., and utilityman Pete Poindexter, 33, of Rock. in a roof collapse at the at Brooks Run Mining Co.�...

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Two miners were killed in a roof collapse in a West Virginia mine yesterday. The deaths occurred at the Brooks Run Mining Co.’s Cucumber Mine, in the town of Cucumber, about 25 miles south of ...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/two-west-virginia-miners-killed-in.html

One of the major problems with ensuring the ssafety of workers in the country is the lack of staffing and resources that federal OSHA or OSHA state aplans have to enforce the law. The AFL-CIO cal...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/maryland-county-moves-on-workplace.html

Curiouser and curiouser : > The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees > suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was > dismayed th...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/where-do-they-find-these-guys.html

In the continuing spirit of bi-partisanship, President Bush has renominated some of the worst of the worst nominees to head safety, environmental and regulatory agencies. Former coal industry ...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-foxes-chickens-and-chickencoops.html

Yes, it's true, the House of Representatives is doing some real things for the American worker, like passing a minimum wage bill. But real accomplishments are so boring. In these heady days, now ...

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/change-is-in-air-and-in-house.html

Chicago Tribune reporters Steve Franklin and Darnell Little have continued their series on Throwaway Workers with two more articles about trucking and truckers. Most of the goods that our socie...

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