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:: Thursday, April 08, 2004 ::
America's Most Mistreated Workers: Public Employees posted by Jordan Barab, Confined Space
Public employees work in some of this nation's most dangerous workplaces: highways, prisons, hospitals, law enforcement, fire fighting, mental health institutions and wastewater treatment plants. 6,455 public employees died in the workplace from 1992 to 2001, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They die in perfectly legal 15 foot-deep, unprotected trenches, in unmonitored confined spaces, on unsafe machinery and no one investigates their deaths, no one is fined and no one seems to care -- except for their families. Last week, the ex-wife of one Texas public employee killed on the job wrote me:------------------------------------------- posted 6:59 AM :: reference link ::
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