OSHA aims to prevent ‘needless deaths’
The deadliest year for grain-bin workers on record was 2010, when at least 26 workers died throughout the country, according to grain-bin entrapment data from Purdue University. There were more than 50...
View ArticleOSHA educates more than it enforces
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is responsible for overseeing workplace safety, but the organization is handicapped when it comes to dealing with small farms and agriculture sites...
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Tougher farm safety regulation hard to come by in Iowa
Sarah Hadley/Iowa WatchA dummy placed beneath a rolled over tractor gives Eastern Iowa firefighters a chance to practice their response in situations involving a farmer. This photo is from Tractor...
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Farm Safety Trainers: Consistent Advice For Preventing Grain Bin Fatalities...
Darrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingThe grain facility in Sidney, Ill., on Tuesday, August 13, 2013. AMES, Iowa -- Grain bins, a common sight for anyone traveling through Iowa and...
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Despite hazards, push to open public roads to off-road vehicles in high gear
More than 14,000 people, including roughly 3,200 children age 15 or younger, have been killed in crashes of all-terrain vehicles since federal safety officials began keeping track in the early 1980s....
View ArticleOpinion: New federal food recall guidelines may improve food safety
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service says in 2018 there have been dozens of recalls involving millions of pounds of sausage, calzones and chicken whatnots contaminated with metal, plastic and...
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Worst is coming, governor, hospital officials warn in plea to Iowans to take...
IowaWatch · PODCAST: COVID’s Iowa hospital assault Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday she has approved sending $25 million in CARES money the state received to Iowa hospitals for COVID-19 relief, based...
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