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Click here for information about  The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi  by Les Leopold.  Jordan Barab reports he loved it. If you're interested in rejuvenating the labor movement, in workplace safety issues, or in labor history of the last fifty years, buy this book and read it. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll be inspired.  Buy it for yourself. But it for your friends.  

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Jordan's blog:  2004 In Review: Top Ten Workplace Safety & Health Stories of 2004

Jordan's blog:  2003 In Review: Top 14 Workplace Safety & Health Stories of 2003  

Jordan's blog:  APHA Lorin Kerr Award Speech by Jordan Barab

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Still Lessons to Be Learned
This is a good review in the NY Times of a new history of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 entitled Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle.

Check out the September 3, 2005 posting on Hanford Workers Awarded $4.8 Million in Whistleblower Safety Case.

Check out the August 31, 2005 posting on Schwarzenegger's Secret Motives (re Heat Stress)

Check out the August 31, 2005 posting on Immigrant Workers Demand Health Screening from Company that Poisoned Them about the AXT Company and the organizing that APEN (Asian Pacific Environmental Network) is doing with the former AXT workers in California

Check out the July 31, 2005 posting on California Proposes Heat Regulation.

Check out the July 28, 2005 posting on United Farmworkers Fight to Stop Heat Deaths in California's Fields.

Check out the July 26, 2005 posting on Heat Kills (again).

Check out the July 25, 2005 posting on Heat Kills.

Check out the July 20, 2005 posting on John Roberts.

Check out the July 11, 2005 posting on Stupid and Deadly: Undocumented Workers Lured into Arrest with Promise of Safety Training. 

Check out the March 2, 2005 posting on The New AFL-CIO: Wither Safety & Health?

Check out the February 19, 2005 posting on Asbestos: Cruel, Deadly and Uncompensated

Check out the February 8, 2005 posting on W.R. Grace Execs Indicted For Asbestos Coverup  - George Bush's Frivolous Asbestos Claims

Check out the February 4, 2005 posting on Frivolous Asbestos Claims, Part II

Check out the February 3, 2005 posting on Frivolous Asbestos Claims? 

Check out the January 10, 2005 posting on Asbestos "Compensation" -- Return of the Living Dead 

Check out the December 2004 posting on the Texas Political Operative (Ephedra Lobbyist) Appointed as Acting OSHA HEAD 

Check out the April 13, 2004 posting on What is OSHA doing About Immigrant Worker Safety?

Check out the April 5, 2004 posting on Barstow/Bergman Win Pulitzer for Workplace Safety Series

ArnoldWatch web log
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The Pump Handle
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The NIOSH Science blog
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May 2, 2007
LHSFNA Attacks OSHA Standards Inaction
LHSFNA (Vol. III, No. 12)
Speaking on behalf of workers and safety conscious employers across the United States, the LHSFNA attacked the standard-setting shortcomings of OSHA in testimony last week before Congress.

March 14, 2006
Union:  Cal-OSHA simply needs more - With bridge-injury audit still fresh, inspectors say lack of money, staffing a hindrance
Josh Richman
ANG Newspapers
California's workplace-safety watchdog agency should get another $9 million in next year's budget so it can hire 100 more inspectors, the inspectors' union proposed Monday.   The California Association of Professional Scientists? proposal comes one month after the state auditor found the Occupational Safety and Health Administration failed to properly monitor and act upon injury reports and safety complaints on the $1.7 billion replacement of the Bay Bridge?s eastern span.

February 11, 2006
U.S. Officials Defend Ploys to Catch Immigrants
Steven Greenhouse
New York Times
Despite criticism from advocates for immigrants, federal immigration officials said in recent days that they would not forswear the practice of impersonating occupational safety officials to round up illegal immigrants.   Last July, federal agents arrested 48 workers at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina on charges of being illegal immigrants after the agents tricked the workers into attending what was billed as a mandatory training session sponsored by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

August 18, 2005
Sour Grapes, California Farmworkers' Endless Struggle 40 Years Later
Marc Cooper
LA Weekly
Farmworkers protest against harsh working conditions under the sweltering heat.

July 28, 2005
Deaths Rally Farm Laborers
Mark Arax
LA Times
Three men have died after working in the recent intense heat of the Central Valley, sparking a demand for more safeguards.

July 26, 2005
Abestos Bill Worries Ex-Shipyard Workers
Anna Ziajka
The Vallejo Times Herald
Just a few years after Simeon Vargas retired from Mare Island Naval Shipyard, his doctor gave him a choice: Learn to live with the pain or lose his lung. Vargas opted for the pain. The 57-year-old Vallejo man suffers from asbestos poisoning that he attributes to the 25 years he spent installing pipes at the former shipyard.

July 22, 2005
Dozens of Chemicals Found in Most Americans' Bodies
Marla Cone
LA Times
In the largest study of chemical exposure ever conducted on human beings, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that most American children and adults were carrying in their bodies dozens of pesticides and toxic compounds used in consumer products, many of them linked to potential health threats.

July 11, 2005
Living Well: Exposure to toxins driving up healthcare costs
Bob Condor
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Exposure to toxins costs us billions each year, study shows.

June 23, 2005
Pay Abuses Common For Day Laborers, Study Finds
Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post
Recent studies cite a pattern of increasing exploitation of low-wage workers in the United States.  In this example, the average monthly income of a Latino male is under $1,000.

June 1, 2005
Industry Groups Fight Government Regulation by Fomenting Scientific Uncertainty
David Michaels
Scientific American
Many Corporations have successfully avoided expense and inconvenience by blocking and stalling much needed protections for public health.  Over the past three decades, industry groups have frequently become involved in the investigative process when their interests are threatened.

May 27, 2005
VotersInjuredAtWork.org Files Lawsuit Challenging Governor's Permanent Disability Compensation Cuts
VotersInjuredAtWork.org Newsroom
VotersInjuredatWork.org and attorneys for injured workers filed a lawsuit in the California Supreme Court challenging the governor?s deep cuts in injured workers? permanent disability compensation. The lawsuit seeks to block the governor?s drastic reductions in the already-meager compensation injured workers receive.

May 27, 2005
Panel OKs Bill to Create Asbestos Fund
Tom Ramstack
World Peace Harold
A Senate committee yesterday approved a bill to create a $140 billion fund to compensate victims of asbestos poisoning that would shield manufacturers and insurers from lawsuits.  The fund would be financed by companies facing asbestos litigation and their insurers.  Victims would be compensated only by the fund but no longer could sue for damages.


May 27, 2005
Senate Asbestos Fight Heating Up
Associated Press
CBS News - Health Watch
Manufacturers and insurance companies would be shielded from multimillion-dollar lawsuits from people with asbestos-related diseases in exchange for funding a $140 billion trust fund under legislation that has cleared its first hurdle.  Supporters claim a fund like the one the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Thursday is the only way to stop large asbestos lawsuits that have bankrupted such companies as Owens Corning Fiberglas and W.R Grace, and left sick people with no way to pay their medical bills.


May 26, 2005
Bill to Create Asbestos Disease Fund Goes to Senate for Vote
Stephen Labaton
New York Times
Legislation to create a $140 billion fund for victims of asbestos exposure gained considerable momentum on Thursday when it was overwhelmingly approved by a Senate committee after weeks of debate.  The measure would restrict asbestos victims from bringing their claims into court and would limit the liability of makers and insurers but force them to make contributions to the fund.

May 16, 2005
Significant Costs from Workplace Homicides Estimated in Study
Daniel Hartley, Elyce A. Biddle, and E. Lynn Jenkins
American Journal of Industrial Medicine
Workplace homicides resulted in a total cost of nearly $6.5 billion and a mean cost of $800,000 between 1992 and 2001, NIOSH researchers estimate in a study published in the June 2005 issue of American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

May 10, 2005
Public Citizen Press Release

May 5, 2005
Labor Union Suing Over New Workers' Comp Formula
Deborah Lohse
San Jose Mercury News
The CA Labor Federation is suing to ban the use of a formula that determines how much an injured worker will receive. The group argues that the formula drastically cuts payments by fifty percent or less than what injured workers used to get. The CA workers's comp division director was also accused of not taking research study into account when she wrote the new rules.

April 26, 2005
Workers' Benefits Cut in CA While Rates Remain the Same
Marc Lifsher
LA Times
Labor officials argue that insurers in the state of CA have slashed benefits but have kept their rates the same. The state insurance Commissioner John Garamendi said he was "disturbed that insurance companies might be making large profits by possibly withholding benefits from employees hurt on the job." A spokesman for the industry said "we're in a period of adjustment" and "the insurance industry is quickly adjusting to better information out there and making appropriate decreases."

April 6-13, 2005
The Working Wounded
Rachel Brahinsky
San Francisco Bay Guardian
How Schwarzenegger is saving Wall Street by decimating workers' comp - a report from the front lines.

April 6, 2005
SV40 Not Implicated in Mesothelioma
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
SV40 does not have a role in the majority of malignant mesotheliomas -- a cancer associated with exposure to asbestos -- according to a study in this month's Cancer Research.  The study, led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers, used a scrupulous protocol that eliminated contamination that has likely been the reason previous studies have implicated SV40 in this cancer.

April 5, 2005
Workers Comp Changes Protested
Deborah Lohse
Mercury News
Injured workers, joined by a once powerful former state senator, made a last-ditch effort Monday to pressure the state's workers' compensation director to restore some benefits for workers left with permanent disabilities from on-the-job injuries.

March 28, 2005
From Injury to Insult
Marc Lifsher
LA Times
Few attorney are settling work comp cases because of the legal uncertainties surrounding CA's revamped rules. Lawmakers continue to introduce bills that will change the law even though it hasn't been fully implemented. This is creating serious backlogs that are preventing injured workers from getting benefits.

March 7, 2005
Families Left in Ashes
Liz Tascio
Contra Costa Times
On a clear, sunny day in November, five men, working to create better livelihoods, instead lost their lives.

March 7, 2005
Safety Records Play No Part in Bidding
Mike Taugher & Thomas Peele
Contra Consta Times
Each year, California government agencies award billions of dollars to construction companies without evaluating the firms' safety records.The law does not require it, and most public agencies do not request or review bidders' safety histories before awarding multimillion-dollar contracts.

March 7, 2005
Catastrophic Convergence
Mike Taugher, Thomas Peele & Liz Tascio
Contra Consta Times
As two companies trade blame after a disastrous pipeline explosion, five families struggle to cope with a terrible loss.

March 6, 2005
Mountain Cascade Safety Record 'is not good'
Thomas Peele, Mike Taugher and Liz Tascio
Contra Costa Times
Mountain Cascade Inc. of Livermore became a Northern California construction power while receiving dozens of safety citations for accidents that left workers dead and disabled, documents show.

March 6, 2005
Deadly Incidents, Painful Memories
Thomas Peele
Contra Consta Times
A trio of deaths in the six years prior to November's explosion has left Mountain Cascade to explain its safety record to Cal-OSHA, families.

March 6, 2005
Companies with Perilous Histories Cross Paths at Walnut Creek Pipeline
Thomas Peele & Mike Taugher
Contra Costa Times
On November 9, an explosion at a construction site near downtown Walnut Creek killed five workers and severely burned four others in the nation's deadliest petroleum pipeline explosion in more than 20 years.

March 6, 2005
Rapid Growth Fuels Concern
Mike Taugher & Thomas Peele
Contra Costa Times
The deadly pipeline explosion in Walnut Creek four months ago marked the worst in a series of accidents plaguing the nation's largest owner of liquid fuel pipelines, intensifying questions about Kinder Morgan Inc.'s ability to safely maintain its expanding network.

Winter, 2005
Health Care Worker Resources Featured in Global Health Network Newsletter
The Global Occupational Health Network (GOHNET)
Highlights information available on hazards and exposures faced by health care workers around the world, including tuberculosis, exposure to ethylene oxide, latex allergy, workplace violence, musculoskeletal disorders, female reproductive health and psychosocial hazards, such as organizational change and workplace stress.
For more information on health care worker safety & health contact John Palasis at JPalassis@cdc.gov or go to http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/healthcare


February 18, 2005
Asbestos Health Crisis Wrongly Labeled a 'Litigation Crisis'
Paul Brodeur
LA Times
The Bush administration has been covering up a major public health crisis by having the American people believe it is frivolous legal issue. Asbestos has already hurt thousands of people and will continue to harm the public because many homes and office buildings still contain this toxic substance. The author believes the asbestos compensation fund lends a "helping hand" to companies that behaved negligently and does not take into consideration the number of claims that may be filed.

February 18, 2005
Computers: Construction Health and Safety
Michael Boltzer
Occupational Hazards
The Internet is home to a growing body of free information on identifying, evaluating and controlling construction hazards.

February 16, 2005
W.R. Grace & Tort Reform
Molly Irvins
The Montana Standard
The U.S. Senate voted for tort deform last week came just a few days after the news that seven executives of W.R. Grace and Co. were indicted on criminal charges for knowingly putting their workers and the public in danger by exposing them to asbestos ore.

Feburary 8, 2005
Grace Employees Indicted for Covering Up Asbestos Studies
AP Staff
New York Times
W.R. Grace and seven of his top employees were indicted for covering up studies that show a mine in Libby was exposing workers and residents to asbestos. The EPA declared the mine to be a Superfund site and has spent nearly $55 million to clean it. The mine manager and a few other executives could face over 50 years in prison.

January 26, 2005
Meatpackers Subjected to Hazardous Work Conditions
Steven Greenhouse
NY Times
Human Rights Watch released a report that condemns the meatpacking industry's work conditions. The group feels these companies violate employees' human rights by not allowing them to organize and by subjecting them to an unsafe workplace. The group claims the industry even pressures workers not to file work comp claims if they are injured.

January 8, 2005
Bush Calls for Change in Handling Asbestos Lawsuits
Stephen Labaton
NY Times
Bush hopes to limit companies' legal liability from asbestos claims by pushing for a legislative solution.  He argues that companies are bankrupted by asbestos litigation and that many receiving compensation do not have major medical impairments.  Critics believe the administration exaggerates the problem and is "catering to special interests."

January 6, 2005
Bill Aims to Regulate Workers? Comp Rates: The legislation is likely to be vetoed by the governor, who killed a similar plan last year.
Marc Lifsher
LA Times
Senator Vows to Overhaul CA?s Worker?s Comp System - Legislation was just introduced that seeks to reform the current worker?s comp system in CA. The senator that introduced the bill believes the state is still being price gouged by the insurance companies. Many also believe small and medium-sized businesses have not received any benefits from the recent $20 billion overhaul of the system.

December 17, 2004
AIHA Announces Top EHS Issue
Sandy Smith
Occupational Hazards
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) released the results of its biannual public policy survey that projects the top public policy issues of concern to the occupational and environmental health and safety profession over the next two years.

December 14, 2004
Texas Political Operative, Ephedra Lobbyist Appointed Acting OSHA Head
Jordan Barab
Jordan's Blog
US Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao announced that Jonathan L. Snare has been appointed the deputy assistant secretary for the Occupational Safety and Health Administraion (OSHA) and will serve as acting assistant secretary upon the departure of the current OSHA Assistant Secretary John Henshaw on December 31, 2004. 

December 8, 2004
Work-comp Rule Could Cut Benefits by Two-Thirds
Deborah Lohse
Mercury News
Researchers in CA analyzed the possible effects of a new workers' comp rating system. The study shows that injured workers may lose two-thirds of their benefits under the new law. Personal injury lawyers hope the dept. developing the new study will take the study into consideration.  

November 25, 2004
Lack of Funding Slows Cleanup of Hundreds of Superfund Sites
Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post
As a toddler, Elam Jacob used to cling to one of the front windows in his house to watch his father, Cory, leave for and come home from work. Unbeknown to his parents, Elam was inhaling lead-laced dust blowing in from outside, the legacy of a defunct smelter dating to 1871 and a handful of smaller industrial operations in town.

November 18, 2004
Workers' Comp Rate Cut Proposed at 2.2%
Marc Lifsher
LA Times
The Insurance Commissioner recommended a meager drop in worker's comp rates for CA. Regulation is expected to pass that would overhaul the workers' comp system and allegedly reduce the rates significantly. Plaintiff attorneys in CA are preparing to file suit to block the rules that could limit how much workers can receive for their injuries.

August 3, 2004
Judge Orders Osha to Disclose Safety Records
Julia Preston
The New York Times
For the first time, A federal judge requires the Occupational Health and Safety Board [OSHA] to disclose the company names and worker injury and illness rates of American Workplaces with the worst safety records.

August 2, 2004
More Worker's Comp Woes
Worker's compensation insurance policy prices in California are estimated to increase, regardless of attempts to bring policy rates down, because of an insurance industry group's proposal.  The editorial writer argues that sources of the problem of high policy prices include lack of both reform and regulation.  He believes market uncertainties are present and calls for government intervention.

July 23, 2004
Asbestos Deaths On The Rise
APStaff
Newsday
Article uses a CDC source to describe the rising impact of asbestos on worker's health, and the future of asbestos related injuries.

June 23, 2004
Garment Factory Alterations: Ergonomic
equipment test leads to gains in workers'
health and productivity 
By Suzanna Bohan 
Sacremento Bee
Article examines the large productivity increase, up too 20%, as
well as the health benefits, in three garment factories after the induction of more ergonomic equipment into the workplace.

March 4, 2004
A Mexican Worker Dies Each Day
By Justin Prichard 
AP news
Article examines the large disparity between the number
of US born worker deaths and the number of Mexican born worker deaths. Pointedly, Mexican born worker death rates are on a rise even as the average US workplace grows safer.

June 24, 2004
IBM Settles 50 Toxic Chemical Suits
By Therese Poletti
San Jose Mercury News

May 28, 2004
The Most Dangerous Jobs in America
By Carrie Coolidge
Forbes

May 22, 2004
Laborer's Death Prompts Homicide Investigation
By Michael Brick and Jess Wislowski
New York Times

May 18, 2004
Significant Adverse Effects at WTC: Recent reports show that the dust from the World Trade Center attacks is more toxic than researchers initially realized - and so is the range of health problems in those exposed to it
By Jennifer Barrett
Newsweek

May 18, 2004
House Votes to Make Changes to OSHA
By Leigh Strope
Associated Press

May 17, 2004
OSHA Bills Protect Employers at Cost of Workers' Safety
The Watcher

May 17, 2004
Congress may help small biz fight OSHA
By Ken Hoover
Denver BizJournal (American City Business Journals Inc.)

May 13, 2004
Many Who Served on 9/11 Are Still Pressing Fight for Workers' Compensation
By Anthony DePalma
New York Times

May 12, 2004
Toyota worker crushed to death in factory press

May 7, 2004
Labor laws figure in fatal crash
By Melanie Payne
Sacramento Bee

May 3, 2004
19 farm workers exposed to deadly nerve-gas pesticide, three workers still hospitalized in guarded condition
By United Farm Workers

April 27, 2004
Fallen workers may get state Capitol memorial
By Barb Kucera
Workday Minnesota

April 23, 2004
Asbestos legislation falls apart in the Senate
By Charles Pope
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

April 22, 2004; Page A03
Hanford Contractor Alters Safety Orders
Workers to Get Clean-Air Equipment
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post

April 22, 2004
Fund for Asbestos Victims Seems Headed for Setback Today
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
New York Times

April 21, 2004
Editorial - The Asbestos Challenge
New York Times

April 20, 2004
Proposed Asbestos Fund Divides Victims
By Albert B. Crenshaw
The Washington Post

April 8, 2004
Fall from bridge kills painter
Officials unsure if worker on Benicia-Martinez span wore harness
By Jason B. Johnson & Michael Cabanatuan
San Francisco Chronicle

March 28, 2004; Page A08
Injury Reporting Is Criticized
DOE Draft Audit Faults Contractors at Nuclear Cleanup Sites
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post

March 24, 2004
The AXT Way
Meet Xuan Wen Li. Fremont semiconductor firm AXT, Inc. poisoned him with arsenic, then fired him - just as it did with up to 500 other Chinese immigrants.
By Chris Thompson
East Bay Express

March 13, 2004
One Mexican Worker Dying a Day, AP Finds
By Justin Pritchard
Associated Press

March 13, 2004
Book Says U.S. Aides Lied in Nuclear-Arms Plant Case
By Matthew L. Wald
New York Times

February 5, 2004
Petaluma firm fined $475,000 for 2 deaths
Spectrum admits violating safety rules in '02 accident
By Jeremy Hay
The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa)

December 31, 2003
Edwards Sets Work Safety Plan (Dec. 31, 2003)
By Randal C. Archibold
New York Times

December 23, 2003
PART THREE: THE CALIFORNIA WAY
California Leads in Making Employer Pay for Job Deaths
California stands alone in its willingness to prosecute employers who kill or harm their workers by violating safety laws.
By David Barstow
New York Times
Articles in this series examine how the government deals with the most serious cases of death on the job.

December 22, 2003
PART TWO: A CULTURE OF RELUCTANCE
U.S. Rarely Seeks Charges for Deaths in Workplace
In the vast majority of workplace deaths caused by willful violation of safety laws, OSHA has declined to pursue prosecution.
By David Barstow
New York Times
Articles in this series examine how the government deals with the most serious cases of death on the job.

December 21, 2003
PART ONE: THE PLUMBER'S APPRENTICE
A Trench Caves In; a Young Worker Is Dead. Is It a Crime?
The death of an untrained, unskilled apprentice in an unprotected, unstable, rain-saturated trench was tragic, but was it criminal?
By David Barstow
New York Times
Articles in this series examine how the government deals with the most serious cases of death on the job.

December 16, 2003
Pipe Maker Is Fined Over Safety Violations (Dec. 16, 2003)
By David Barstow
New York Times 

June, 2003
Workers at Risk: The Dangers on the Job When the Regulators Don?t Try Very Hard
an Interview with Margaret Seminario, Director of the Occupational Safety & Health for the AFL-CIO, where she has been since 1977 
Multinational Monitor  VOLUME 24 - NUMBER 6

May 15, 2003
Criminal Inquiry Under Way at Large Pipe Manufacturer
By David Barstow and Lowell Bergman
New York Times

April 15, 2003
Pipe Maker Is Fined Over Safety Violations
By David Barstow and Lowell Bergman
New York Times

January 16, 2003
Two at Hazardous Foundry Tell of Events Costing One His Legs (Jan. 16, 2003)
By David Barstow
New York Times

January 11, 2003
Death in the Workplace
New York Times editorial

January 10, 2003
PART THREE: FAILURES OF REGULATION
Deaths on the Job, Slaps on the Wrist
By David Barstow and Lowell Bergman
New York Times
McWane Inc. workers have been maimed and killed by safety failures. Yet regulators and police have never taken a coordinated approach to end patterns of transgression.
Articles in this series examine the safety and environmental record of McWane Inc., one of the world's largest makers of cast-iron pipes.

January 9, 2003
PART TWO: A SECRETIVE DYNASTY
Family's Profits, Wrung From Blood and Sweat
By David Barstow and Lowell Bergman
New York Times
The story of how a reclusive family ascended into the ranks of the nation's wealthiest dynasties is an often-painful one, written in the blood and tears of its workers.
Articles in this series examine the safety and environmental record of McWane Inc., one of the world's largest makers of cast-iron pipes.

January 9, 2003
PBS Frontline episode entitled A Dangerous Business reviewed OSHA's history and recommended building other structures (unions, university research) alongside to strengthen its effectiveness.
By David Weil

January 8, 2003
PART ONE: A WORKPLACE IN TURMOIL
At a Texas Foundry, an Indifference to Life
By David Barstow and Lowell Bergman
One of the world's largest manufacturers of cast-iron sewer and water pipe is also one of the most dangerous employers in America.
Articles in this series examine the safety and environmental record of McWane Inc., one of the world's largest makers of cast-iron pipes.

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