Category: Worker Safety
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Broward County bosses deep-six whistleblower complaints, suit says
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Broward’s top administrators have repeatedly covered up employee whistleblower complaints about serious failures, including missteps that led to a fatal accident at Port Everglades, according to new court documents.
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Pipeline company with tie to Gov. Scott, and state backing, has history of accidents
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Spectra Energy, the company that state environmental regulators say should be allowed to construct a 267-mile-long natural gas pipeline in North Florida, has a checkered history of accidents and violations of federal safety rules in the U.S. and Canada dating back decades.
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Latino workers dying at higher rates in job accidents, report shows
By Stuart Silverstein FairWarning As Latino workers take on more and more of the nation’s toughest and dirtiest jobs, they increasingly are paying for it with their lives.
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Obama election-year pullbacks on safety, environment dismay advocates
By Lilly Fowler, Fair Warning Two summers ago, Wyatt Whitebread drowned in corn at the age of 14. It happened on a hot July morning, while he was working at a grain handling operation in Mount Carroll, Ill. Soon after Whitebread climbed inside a storage bin to help empty it, equipment whirring nearby created a…