A Bad Comination for 2009

Posted 9:43 AM by Michael Fox

With the Obama administration expected to place a much higher emphasis on OSHA enforcement, news that workplace fatalities for 2007 in Texas were the highest in 6 years, is not a good combination. Texas experiences spike in workplace fatalities.

The leading causes of Texas workplace death?

highway crashes (132),
falls to lower levels (72),
homicides (70)
being struck by an object (47).

Homicides is that one that surprises me.

Last week the Washington Post article, Under Bush, OSHA Mired in Inaction, was a less than flattering look at the agency. Expect the approach to be quite different under Secretary Solis and whoever ends up as head of OSHA.

Labels: safety

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