FairWarning Reports
Safety Agency Probes Data Breach Amid Complaints About Muzzling of Hazard Information
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is struggling to contain the fallout from a data breach involving thousands of companies, highlighting the tension between the agency's mandate to protect consumers and to prevent reputational damage to product makers.
Worker Advocates Burned Up Over Lack of Federal Heat Protections
On a summer morning near Dayton, Ohio, a temporary worker began his first day with a commercial roofing company around 6:30 a.m.
Soaring Costs But Meager Progress in Cleanup of ‘Scariest’ Nuclear Sites
The progress of a Department of Energy program to clean up the nation’s most dangerous nuclear waste sites appears to be slowing down even though it’s still devouring billions of dollars.
Job-Related Falls Should Be Easy to Prevent, But Workers Are Still Dying in Record Numbers
Last August, Higinio Romero was working on the roof of a condo in South Florida when he slipped and fell two stories, landing on rocks below. Emergency workers found him unconscious and bleeding from his ears. Romero — a father of two children, 4 months old and 10 years old — died about an hour later. According to a sheriff’s report, he had unclipped his safety harness shortly before the fall.
Tracking the Cost in Lives of Higher Speed Limits
The federal government’s 1995 decision to allow states to set speed limits higher than 65 mph caused almost 14,000 additional deaths over 25 years on interstates and freeways, according to a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Lawmakers Question Industry Influence at Consumer Product Safety Commission
Editor's note: Correction and update April 11. See note at end of the story.
Leaders of a House committee have called on the acting head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Ann Marie Buerkle, to disclose her contacts with business groups, citing a "disturbing'' report by FairWarning that "suggests you are prioritizing the interests of industry over the safety of consumers.''
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