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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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| 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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Subject: workplace deaths
OSHA's 20 year period
1,242 fatality cases resulted in employers' willful violation of OSHA standards, of those only 119 were referred to the Department of Justice.
The Justice Department has won 4 convictions against employers whose willful violations of OSHA standards resulted in a job death.
So in twenty years, if the death count is 109, 500*, only .03% of workplace deaths have ended in convictions.
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