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:: Monday, April 11, 2005 ::
Bay Bridge injury record is questioned By Jill Tucker and Sean Holstege, Oakland Tribune
About 20 former and current welders say the contractor's nearly perfect safety record masks a work site dominated by fear of retaliation for reporting injuries. That public record also fails to reveal the cash bonuses given to crews posting clean safety records - a policy that national safety experts say creates peer pressure to conceal injuries.
With that system of safety bonuses and injury suspensions, the nearly perfect injury rates reported by contractor KFM Joint Venture are 'hard to believe, and require verification,' said Bob Whitmore, OSHA's chief of recordkeeping in Washington, D.C.
Bay Bridge workers interviewed say the contractor's safety record is whitewashed and goes hand in hand with management attempts to conceal widespread welding defects and overall quality concerns - outlined in Wednesday's Oakland Tribune and the subject of an FBI investigation.------------------------------------------- posted 12:13 PM :: reference link ::
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