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Congress Urged to Make Workplace Deaths Due to Employer Negligence a Felony

National News • April 29, 2004
A man whose son was killed 11 years ago in a gruesome workplace accident in Florida urged Congress this week to give prosecutors the threat of felony convictions against employers whose neglect ...

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Subject: workplace deaths

Posted On: April 29, 2004, 1:09 pm CDT
Posted By: Thomas Jones
Comment:
The second to last paragraph has either a typo or is grammatically incorrect. It says, "OSHA sought prosecution on only 93 percent of those cases. There were only 11 convictions." Why say ONLY 93%? 93% is almost all of them!! What does this mean? Should "only" be sruck from the sentence, or is the percentage wrong?
Now, saying "only" 11 convictions IS reasonable; that IS ONLY 1%.
Subject Posted By Posted On
RE: workplace deaths Tammy Miser
Jul 27, 2004, 1:28 pm
RE: workplace deaths Liz
Jul 27, 2004, 11:07 am
workplace deaths Tammy
Jun 30, 2004, 3:44 pm
choice of the word "only Richard Wellner
Apr 29, 2004, 1:41 pm
workplace deaths Thomas Jones
Apr 29, 2004, 1:09 pm
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