{"id":878,"date":"2017-05-02T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=878"},"modified":"2017-05-02T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:05:09","slug":"oil-gas-industry-highest-rate-severe-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/05\/02\/oil-gas-industry-highest-rate-severe-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Stuff: Must-reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Less Than Chickens<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-836\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-836\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tyson_wide-54173c636eae6806c523810ecffc26eece1afc34-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tyson_wide-54173c636eae6806c523810ecffc26eece1afc34-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tyson_wide-54173c636eae6806c523810ecffc26eece1afc34-s800-c85-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tyson_wide-54173c636eae6806c523810ecffc26eece1afc34-s800-c85-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Earl Dotter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earldotter.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.earldotter.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MUST-READ<\/span> article,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/case-farms-chicken-industry-immigrant-workers-and-american-labor-law?utm_source=pardot&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=dailynewsletter\"> Pro Publica&#8217;s \u00a0Mike Grabell describes the plight of Case Farms poultry workers<\/a>, most of whom are undocumented refugees from Guatamala. Just a sample of Grabell&#8217;s compelling article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Guatemalan immigrant, Osiel was just weeks past his 17th birthday, too young by law to work in a factory. A year earlier, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3243362-Guatemalan-Police-Report-on-Shooting-of-Osiel.html\">gang members shot his mother<\/a> and tried to kidnap his sisters, he left his home, in the mountainous village of Tectit\u00e1n, and sought asylum in the United States. He got the job at Case Farms with a driver\u2019s license that said his name was Francisco Sepulveda, age 28. The photograph on the ID was of his older brother, who looked nothing like him, but nobody asked any questions.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"promotion series-promotion\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div class=\"group\">Osiel sanitized the liver giblet chiller, a tublike contraption that cools chicken innards by cycling them through a near-freezing bath, then looked for a ladder, so that he could turn off the water valve above the machine. As usual, he said, there weren\u2019t enough ladders to go around, so he did as a supervisor had shown him: He climbed up the machine, onto the edge of the tank, and reached for the valve. His foot slipped; the machine automatically kicked on. Its paddles grabbed his left leg, pulling and twisting until it snapped at the knee and rotating it 180 degrees, so that his toes rested on his pelvis. The machine \u201cliterally ripped off his left leg,\u201d medical reports said, leaving it hanging by a frayed ligament and a five-inch flap of skin. Osiel was rushed to Mercy Medical Center, where surgeons amputated his lower leg.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Back at the plant, Osiel\u2019s supervisors hurriedly demanded workers\u2019 identification papers. Technically, Osiel worked for Case Farms\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3238430-OSHA-Willful-Violation-Justification-on-Osiel.html#document\/p8\/a345229\">closely affiliated<\/a> sanitation contractor, and suddenly the bosses seemed to care about immigration status. Within days, Osiel and several others \u2014 all underage and undocumented \u2014 were fired.<\/p>\n<p>Grabell points out that companies like Case Farms actively seek out the most vulnerable workers, those least likely to complain or organize a union. And if they do protest, Case Farms is suddenly shocked, SHOCKED that undocumented workers are employed. And despite the Case Farms&#8217; numerous violations of the law&#8217;s enforced by OSHA, the NLRB and even animal\u00a0cruelty, they keep getting away with exploiting workers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s heartbreaking and infuriating, but necessary reading.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: Grabel&#8217;s article also appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/05\/08\/exploitation-and-abuse-at-the-chicken-plant\">New Yorker.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>They Can Run, But They Can&#8217;t Hide: Oil and Gas Industry Revealed to Have One of the Highest Rates of Severe Injuries.<\/h2>\n<p>The upstream oil and gas industry has one of the highest rates of severe injuries in the country, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060053892\">analysis conducted by\u00a0E&amp;E News <\/a>of OSHA&#8217;s severe injury data. This is the second report that has emerged in last weeks\u00a0analyzing OSHA&#8217;s data. Last week, Deborah Berkowitz of the National Employment Law Project <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/04\/27\/sacrificing-health-severe-injuries-nelp\/\">wrote an article<\/a> using the same data covering the meat processing industry. \u00a0The data being used in these analyses is Severe Injury data that OSHA has recently required employers to submit to the agency.\u00a0OSHA began collecting this data in 2015. OSHA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/oshaweb\/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&amp;p_id=26673\">issued a regulation<\/a> in 2014 requiring employers to report employers to report all hospitalizations to OSHA, as well as amputations and loss of an eye. Prior to that, employers were only required to report fatalities and hospitalizations of three or more workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The severe injuries \u2014 defined as those causing hospitalization or loss of a body part \u2014 ranged from major burns suffered in explosions to injured hips from falling in the office lobby. The most common injury was amputation, most frequently fingers and fingertips. Next was fractures, mostly legs.\u00a0The most common cause was getting a finger or other body part caught in equipment. Fires and explosions were the fourth most common cause for severe injuries, after falls and being struck by objects.<\/p>\n<p>Injury and illness data in the oil and gas industry has always been somewhat curious. The industry has had a very high fatality rate, but a very low reported injury rate. Injuries and illnesses are reported to OSHA and the Bureau of Labor statistics by employers and there has always been a suspicion that employers are under-reporting. \u00a0Former OSHA head David Michaels offers an explanation: &#8220;&#8216;Many employers don&#8217;t accurately record their injuries,&#8217; he said. He thinks severe injuries are more likely to be reported because they&#8217;re harder to ignore. &#8216;No one says &#8216;keep working&#8217; when somebody&#8217;s lost a body part,&#8217; he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>How To Keep Miners Alive<\/h2>\n<p>Several observers have noted the irony (or tragedy) of President Trump promising to bring back coal mining while at the same time cutting back on the coal enforcement part of the MSHA budget. In case the President is trying to figure out how to solve this puzzle, he should look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/a-workers-memorial-day-message-roadmap-to-protect_us_59039779e4b03b105b44b846?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004\">an article published last week by former\u00a0MSHA Director Joe Main <\/a>describing how the Obama administration<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">ended with the lowest injury rates, lowest fatal rates, and fewest deaths in mining history and no mine disasters for 7 years. \u00a0Unhealthy coal mine dusts levels fell to all time lows.\u00a0\u00a0Mines meeting our screening criteria for pattern of violations enforcement \u2013 our best measure of the worst operators \u2015 dropped from 51 mines in 2010 to zero in 2016. Overall, mine site compliance also improved from 2010 through 2016 as serious (significant and substantial) violations found at mines fell 61% and overall safety violations fell 43\u00a0%.<\/p>\n<p>The secret sauce, according to Main, was\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;(1) mission-driven leadership, (2) protecting workers from retaliation when they stand up for their rights and the rights of their coworkers, (3) making full use of the enforcement tools that Congress provided in our statutes; (4) designing data-driven strategic enforcement plans; and (5) grounding all policymaking in evidence and stakeholder engagement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New Labor Secretary Alex Acosta should put Main&#8217;s article on the top of his reading list.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Keep Tomato Workers Healthy<\/h2>\n<p>Know anything about where your tomatoes come from or under what conditions they&#8217;re harvested?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In general, tomato workers\u2019 occupational illnesses and injuries arise from exposure to one or a combination of the following hazard categories: extreme heat, risky physical postures and movements, poor hygienic conditions, chemical exposures, and psychosocial stressors. These hazards can cause health problems ranging in severity from minor discomfort to life threatening. Many of these hazards and health problems are common to most U.S. agricultural workers. Others \u2013 notably extended periods of stooping and frequent exposure to a variety of pesticides \u2013 are particularly relevant to tomato workers.<\/p>\n<p>The Migrant Clinicians Network has published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrantclinician.org\/toolsource\/resource\/tomato-workers%E2%80%99-health-and-safety-guide-health-care-providers.html?platform=hootsuite\">reference guide <\/a>for health care providers who work with people employed in the U.S. tomato industry.<\/p>\n<h2>Construction Companies Put Profit Ahead of Safety? Is it possible?<\/h2>\n<p>Most construction workers\u00a0think\u00a0that safety takes a backseat to productivity and completing job tasks\u00a0and that management does only the minimum required by law to keep employees safe. This, according to a poll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/58-percent-of-construction-workers-say-safety-takes-a-backseat-to-productivity-according-to-national-safety-council-survey-2017-04-27\">conducted by the National Safety Council<\/a>. These findings are not good considering that the construction industry leads industrial sectors with the most fatalities every year &#8212; and climbing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">A \u00a0<a class=\"icon \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsc.org\/pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_new\">National Safety Council<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"icon \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsc.org\/MembershipDocuments\/Methodology-Employee-Perceptions-Workplace-Safety-Survey.pdf\" target=\"_new\">survey<\/a> found 58 percent of Americans working in construction \u2013 the industry that sees the most workplace fatalities each year \u2013 feel that safety takes a backseat to productivity and completing job tasks. What&#8217;s more, 51 percent say management does only the minimum required by law to keep employees safe, and 47 percent say employees are afraid to report safety issues. By contrast, 36 percent of the 2,000 full-time and part-time employees in the 14 industries surveyed by NSC feel their employers prioritize productivity over safety.<\/p>\n<h2>Regulatory Wrecking Ball<\/h2>\n<p>And finally a New York Times article about the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Congress: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-overturning-regulations.html?_r=0\">Congressional Review Act<\/a> which Congress and the Trump administration have methodically used to dismantle protections for workers, consumers and the environment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The result was a historic reversal of government rules in record time. Mr. Trump has used the review act as a regulatory wrecking ball, signing 13 bills that erased rules on the environment, labor, financial protections, internet privacy, abortion, education and gun rights. In the law\u2019s 21-year history, it had been used successfully only once before, when President George W. Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/03\/08\/us\/house-joins-senate-in-repealing-rules-on-workplace-injuries.html\">reversed a Clinton-era ergonomics rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite quote: &#8220;\u201cIt\u2019s not as if there aren\u2019t an enormous number of regulations still on the books,\u201d [Marc]. Short, the president\u2019s legislative affairs director, said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that we feel like there is some sort of threat by passing this legislation.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less Than Chickens In a MUST-READ article, Pro Publica&#8217;s \u00a0Mike Grabell describes the plight of Case Farms poultry workers, most of whom are undocumented refugees from Guatamala. Just a sample of Grabell&#8217;s compelling article: Guatemalan immigrant, Osiel was just weeks past his 17th birthday, too young by law to work in a factory. 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