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A Lawyer's Weapon Against Farm Worker Complaints: Deportation FairWarining Investigates

A Lawyer’s Weapon Against Farm Worker Complaints: Deportation

By Ted Rohrlich on October 3, 2017

As an attorney representing California Central Valley farmers and labor contractors who rely heavily on undocumented workers, Anthony Raimondo has become widely known for performing a sort of magic trick. He can sometimes make legal complaints against his clients – and the people who file them – disappear. In at least seven cases where workers…

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Air Check

By Stuart Silverstein on September 19, 2017

Leaf blowers can make an infernal racket, and environmental officials say that exhaust from blowers and other gas-powered lawn and garden equipment is a surprisingly big source of air pollution. But are landscaping workers who use the equipment day in and day out exposed to potentially harmful emissions? A 2006 study by the U.S. Environmental…

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U.S. Senators Ask: What's Up at OSHA? FairWarining Reports

U.S. Senators Ask: What’s Up at OSHA?

By Paul Feldman on May 30, 2017

In the four months since President Trump took office, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued four news releases announcing penalties for job safety violations. By the end of May last year, it had issued 199. The recent reticence has spurred six U.S. senators, all Democrats, to ask what’s up at OSHA. In…

Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health | 1 Response

Cone of Silence on Enforcement News from U.S. Labor Department FairWarining Investigates

Cone of Silence on Enforcement News from U.S. Labor Department

By Paul Feldman on March 2, 2017

Editor's note: See update at bottom of story.

In November, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced fines against businesses with workers who were killed when they were pulled into a wood chipper, burned in a refinery fire and crushed in collapsing grain bins and construction trenches. In all, OSHA issued 33 enforcement news releases that month, and over 50 more from…

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A Grim Pattern: Presidential Voting and Workplace Deaths FairWarining Reports

A Grim Pattern: Presidential Voting and Workplace Deaths

By Paul Feldman on February 23, 2017

More than 4,800 American workers are killed on the job each year. But in states that were carried by Donald Trump, the chances of dying at work are higher than in states that Hillary Clinton won. With a single exception, the states that voted Republican had at least three job-related deaths per 100,000 workers, according…

Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health | 5 Comments

When a Workplace Tragedy is Also a Crime FairWarining Commentary

When a Workplace Tragedy is Also a Crime

By Rena Steinzor and Katherine Tracy on May 31, 2016

When we hear about shootings, bank robberies, or home invasions, we expect the perpetrators to be arrested, tried, and punished appropriately if they are found guilty. When a drunk driver kills an innocent bystander, we treat that death as a criminal act punishable with fines and jail time. When an employer ignores workplace safety and…

Posted in Commentary | Tagged Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health | 6 Comments

Recycling is a Feel Good Activity, But Not for Workers Hurt or Killed on the Job FairWarining Investigates

Recycling is a Feel Good Activity, But Not for Workers Hurt or Killed on the Job

By Brian Joseph on April 12, 2016

Darkness had enveloped the Newell Recycling yard by the time Erik Hilario climbed into a front-end loader on a cold evening in January 2011. Just 19 years old, Hilario, an undocumented immigrant, had followed his father from Mexico to an industrial park in East Point, Ga., near Atlanta, where they worked as low-skilled laborers amid…

Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health | 4 Comments

Federal Agency That Protects Whistleblowers Accused of Retaliating Against One of its Own FairWarining Reports

Federal Agency That Protects Whistleblowers Accused of Retaliating Against One of its Own

By Stuart Silverstein on April 11, 2016

For nearly five years, Darrell Whitman was a federal investigator who probed whistleblowers’ complaints about being fired or otherwise punished for exposing alleged corporate misconduct. He wanted to help whistleblowers, viewing them as a crucial line of defense against employers who violated health and safety standards or wasted taxpayer dollars. But now Whitman, 70, is…

Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Aviation Safety, Environmental Safety and Health, Whistleblowers, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health | 6 Comments

After Long Delays, Feds Unveil Tougher Rules to Protect Workers From Silica Dust FairWarining Reports

After Long Delays, Feds Unveil Tougher Rules to Protect Workers From Silica Dust

By Brian Joseph on March 24, 2016

After years of inaction, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration today unveiled tougher standards, widely opposed by industry, to protect workers from exposure to silica dust. Commonly found in sand, concrete and stone, silica has long been recognized as a critical workplace hazard when pulverized into dust. Miners, stonecutters and other laborers who have…

Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health | 1 Response

After Long Delays, Feds to Unveil Tougher Rules to Protect Workers From Silica Dust

After Long Delays, Feds to Unveil Tougher Rules to Protect Workers From Silica Dust

By Brian Joseph on March 23, 2016

After years of inaction, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is expected to unveil tomorrow tougher standards, widely opposed by industry, to protect workers from exposure to silica dust. Commonly found in sand, concrete and stone, silica has long been recognized as a critical workplace hazard when pulverized into dust. Miners, stonecutters and other…

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Jury Tacks on $80 Million in Punitive Damages; Total Award $117 MM Against Johnson & Johnson and Imerys

By Myron Levin

A New Jersey jury today ordered Johnson & Johnson and its main talc supplier to pay $80 million in punitive damages to a mesothelioma victim who claimed he contracted the asbestos-related cancer from years of using Johnson's baby powder.

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Top Off-Road Vehicle Maker Polaris to Pay Record $27.25 Million Penalty Over Fire Risks

By Christopher Jensen

Polaris Industries has agreed to pay $27.25 million – a record penalty – to settle charges that it failed to immediately notify federal officials about a fire hazard on its recreational off-highway vehicles that regulators have linked to at least one death and more than 180 fires.

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Researcher Says Auto Safety Measures Prevented Millions of Deaths

By Christopher Jensen

Traffic safety measures ranging from seat belt and drunk driving enforcement to design standards for cars and trucks "averted a public health disaster" by preventing about 5.8 million deaths in the U.S. from 1968 through 2015, according to a new study.

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Emission Impossible?

By Paul Feldman

Despite the Trump Administration's ardent support of coal over renewable energy, the percentage of U.S. electricity from renewable sources continued its gradual rise in 2017.

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Use of Smartphones and Recreational Marijuana Cited in Rising Pedestrian Deaths

By Paul Feldman

The increasing use of smartphones and recreational marijuana may be contributing to a surge in the numbers of pedestrians killed in traffic crashes, according to a new analysis.

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Fire Danger Persists for Polaris Off-Road Vehicles

By Christopher Jensen

In recent years, Polaris Industries, the leading producer of off-road vehicles, has recalled hundreds of thousands of its trail machines due to a fire danger. The hazard is linked to at least three deaths and three dozen injuries ranging from minor scrapes to limbs burned so badly amputation was required.

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