Death On The Job Report

The AFL-CIO released it’s annual Death on the Job report which documents on the job fatalities in the US over the last year. The reports is published on the AFL-CIO’s website.

The 16th edition of the national and state-by-state profile of worker safety and health in the United States reveals that in 2005 (the last year U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics are available) 5,734 workers died from workplace injuries, compared with 5,764 the previous year. But the figures show a significant increases in fatalities among Latino and foreign-born workers.

On a related note Stephen Labaton at the New York Times writes about OSHA’s late start and popcorn worker’s lung disease.

The agency has killed dozens of existing and proposed regulations and delayed adopting others. For example, OSHA has repeatedly identified silica dust, which can cause lung cancer, and construction site noise as health hazards that warrant new safeguards for nearly three million workers, but it has yet to require them.

More on OSHA at the Pump Handle.

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