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Article: Teamsters Demand That OSHA Issue Emergency Standard on Combustible Dust
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- February 20, 2008
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Leigh Strope of International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
+1-202-624-6911
Teamsters Join UFCW In Petition To Prevent Future Sugar Plant
Explosions
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters
Union joined today with the United Food and Commercial Workers in
calling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
to issue an emergency standard on combustible dust following last
weeks deadly explosion at a sugar plant in Georgia.
The Teamsters and UFCW filed a petition today with the Labor
Department, demanding that OSHA follow the 2006 recommendations of
the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.
Six workers were killed last week and dozens of ...