A recent study suggests that individual risk factors such as
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more may influence the likelihood of developing carpal tunnel syndrome
(CTS), according to the American Association of Neuromuscular and
Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM).
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OSHA recently revised the steel erection compliance directive
for the agency’s Steel Erection Standard to change two enforcement
policies related to tripping hazards and installation of nets or floors
during steel erection.
The United States Fire Administration (USFA) released the
report Firefighter Fatalities in the United States in 2008, which
revealed that of the 118 firefighters who died on duty, 45 died of heart
attacks, which continues to be the most frequent cause of death for
firefighters.
In a rare victory for nuclear whistleblowers, a U.S.
Department of Labor (DOL) appeals panel has ruled that nuclear
contracting giant Stone & Webster violated federal whistleblower law in
2004 when the company fired James Speegle, a foreman at the Tennessee
Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Florence,
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Brian Castro’s help desk department serves more than 1,000
computer users at his company’s corporate center. Among the 23
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Joseph Woolf of Onalaska, Wash., has been sentenced to 90
days in jail and 12 months of community supervision for illegally
collecting workers’ compensation pension benefits while working on his
family-owned farm.
Surgical masks appear to be no worse than, and nearly as
effective as, N95 respirators in preventing influenza in health care
workers, according to a study released by the Journal of American
Medical Association (JAMA).
As transportation crashes continue to be the number one cause
of on-the-job deaths in the United States, causing 2,053 workplace
fatalities in 2007, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
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