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- Randel Johnson » Vice President U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Celeste Monforton, PhD, MPH » The George Washington University School of Public Health
- Margaret “Peg” Seminario » Director of the Department of Occupational Health and Safety AFL-CIO
- Leon Sequeira » Assistant U.S. Labor Secretary for Policy
- Edwin Foulke » Assistant Secretary of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- George Cole » Brother-in-Law of Harold Billingsley, Victim of a Recent Construction Accident Las Vegas, Nevada
- Robert LiMandri » Acting Building Commissioner New York City, New York
- Mike Kallmeyer » Senior Vice President of Construction Services Denier Electric
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Mark Ayers »
President
Building and Construction Trades Department AFL-CIO
- Mr. A.C. Span, Jr »
- Dr. Robert McLellan » Immediate Past President American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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John Ruser, Ph.D. »
Assistant Commissioner
Safety and Health Statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics -
Mr. Baruch Fellner, J.D. »
Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
Representing the US Chamber of Commerce -
Kenneth Rosenman, M.D., FACPM, FACE »
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Michigan State University - Mr. Bob Whitmore » Former Chief OSHA Division of Recordkeeping U.S. Department of Labor
The Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing on the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s lack of adequate enforcement and oversight of workplace safety and health conditions within large, multiple-facility corporations.
Witnesses explored events at the Cintas Corporation, the largest uniform supplier in North America. In 2007, a worker died at the company’s Tulsa facility despite previous evidence, known to both OSHA and Cintas, of similar hazards at other Cintas facilities and industrial laundries. The death resulted in the largest service sector fine in OSHA’s history and was followed by additional citations of similar problems at other Cintas facilities.
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Randy Rabinowitz »
Member
American Bar Association Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee - Ron Taylor » Partner Venable LLC
- Emmanuel Torres » Son of Eleazar Torres-Gomez who died at Cintas’s Tulsa facility in 2007
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Frank White »
Senior Vice President
Head of Health, Safety, and Environmental Practice ORC Worldwide
The Combustible Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Act (H.R. 5522) would force the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue rules regulating combustible industrial dusts, like sugar dust, that can build up to hazardous levels and explode. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration already has the authority to issue such a rule without Congress passing new legislation, but the agency has failed to act despite the fact that the dangers of combustible dust have been well known for years.
U.S. Reps. George Miller (D-CA) and John Barrow (D-GA) introduced the legislation on March 4, 2008. To learn more about H.R. 5522, <a href="http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/rel030308.html">click here</a>.
- The Honorable John Barrow » Congressman Twelfth Congressional District of Georgia
- The Honorable Jack Kingston » Congressman First Congressional District of Georgia
- The Honorable Edwin Foulke » Assistant Secretary of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Tammy Miser »
Sister of Victim of a 2003 Combustible
Dust Explosion in Huntington, IN - Amy Spencer » Senior Chemical Engineer National Fire Protection Association
- The Honorable Bill Wright » Interim Chair U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
- David Sarvadi » Attorney Keller and Heckman
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Eric Frumin »
Director
Occupational Safety and Health Program UNITE-HERE New York, New York - David Socolow » Commissioner New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development Trenton, New Jersey
- Charles Wowkanech » President New Jersey State AFL-CIO Trenton, New Jersey
- James W. Stanley » President FDRsafety, LLC » President FDRsafety, LLC on behalf of the Uniform and Textile Service Association Arlington, Virginia
- Rick Engler » Director Work Environment Council Trenton, New Jersey
- Robert J. Battista » Chairman National Labor Relations Board
- Wilma B. Liebman » Member National Labor Relations Board
- Professor Matthew W. Finkin » Harno-Cleary Chair in Law University of Illinois
- Feliza Ryland » Former Employee of Grosvenor Resort Orlando, Florida
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Charles Cohen »
Partner
Morgan, Lewis, Bockius, LLP
Former Member (1994-96) National Labor Relations Board Washington, DC - Jonathan P. Hiatt » General Counsel AFL-CIO Washington, DC
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Craig Becker »
Attorney for Evelyn Coke
Association General Counsel Service Employees International Union - Manuela Butler » Home Health Care Worker Brooklyn, New York
- Henry Claypool » Washington Office Director Independence Care Systems
- William A. Dombi » Vice President for Law National Association for Home Care
- Alfred B. Robinson, Jr. » Shareholder Ogletree Deakins LLP
- Dorie Seavey » Director of Policy Research The Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
- Steve Allred » Brother of miner Kerry Allred
- Wendy Black » Wife of miner Dale "Bird" Black
- Michael Marasco » Son-in-law of miner Kerry Allred
- Sheila Phillips » Mother of miner Brandon Phillips
- Cesar Sanchez » Brother of miner Manuel Sanchez
- Jon Huntsman, Jr. » Governor of the State of Utah
- Wayne Holland » International Staff Representative United Steelworkers
- Cecil Roberts » President United Mine Workers of America
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Bruce Watzman »
Vice President
Safety, Health, and Human Services National Mining Association
Statements Submitted for the Record
Joint Statement from the Families »
Kristen Kimber »
Mother of miner Brandon Kimber's childrenCasandra Phillips »
Sister of miner Brandon PhillipsNelda Erickson and Amanda Romero »
Wife and daughter of miner Don EricksonAydaliz Sanchez »
Daughter of miner Manual SanchezCody Allred »
Son of miner Kerry AllredJose Luis Payan »
Brother of miner Juan Carlos PayanMarta Sanchez »
Wife of miner Manual Sanchez
- Freddy Cordero » World Trade Center Recovery Worker
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Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc »
Professor and Chairman
Department of Community & Preventive Medicine Mt. Sinai Medical Center New York - Patricia Clark » Regional Administrator OSHA Region II New York
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Brian A. Jackson, Ph.D. »
Associate Director
Homeland Security Program RAND Corporation - Dr. James Melius » Director NYS Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund
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Kevin Stricklin » Administrator Coal Mine Safety and Health »
Administrator
Coal Mine Safety and Health Mine Safety and Health Administration
Department of Labor Arlington, Virginia - Dennis O’Dell » Safety and Health Director United Mine Workers of America Fairfax, Virginia
- James L. Weeks, ScD, CIH » Potomac, Maryland
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Mike Wright »
Director
Health, Safety and Environment United Steelworkers Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Paul DeCamp » Wage and Hour Administrator Department of Labor Washington, DC
- Bob Williams » Fed-Ex Employee Berlin, MA
- Sara Stafford » President Stafford Construction Services Inc.
- Christine Walters » Consultant Five L Company Glyndon, MD
- David Socolow » New Jersey Commissioner of Labor
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Dave Fillman »
Executive Director
AFSCME Council 13
Vice President
AFSCME Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - Casey Jones » Widow of Municipal Worker Daytona Beach, Florida
- David Sarvadi » Attorney Keller and Heckman Washington, DC
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Jon Turnipseed »
Safety Supervisor
Municipal Water Department
Representing the American Society of Safety Engineers City of San Bernardino San Bernardino, California
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Edwin Foulk »
Assistant Secretary
Department of Labor
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Washington, D.C. -
Eric Peoples »
Former Employee
Victim of Bronchiolitis Obliterans (Popcorn Lung) Victim of Bronchiolitis Obliterans (Popcorn Lung) Carthage, Missouri - Scott Schneider » Director of Occupational Safety and Health Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund of North America Washington, D.C.
- Daruch Fellner » Attorney Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher Washington, D.C.
- Frank Mirer » Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Hunter School of Urban Public Health New York, New York
- Cecil Roberts » President United Mine Workers of America Fairfax, Virginia
- Debbie Hamner » Wife of deceased miner George “Junior” Hamner Buckhannon, West Virginia
- Melissa Lee » Wife of deceased miner Jimmy Lee Speedwell, Kentucky
- Scott Howard » Miner Roxana, Kentucky
- Chuck Knisell » Miner Westover, West Virginia
- Tony Oppregard » Attorney at Law Lexington, Kentucky
- Bruce Watzman » Vice President for Safety, Health and Human Resources National Mining Association Washington, D.C.
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Jim Dean »
Director of Extension and Outreach
College of Engineering & Mineral Resources
West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia
- Admiral Frank L “Skip” Bowman » President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute Member, BP U.S. Refineries Independent Review Panel
- Carolyn W. Merritt » Chair U.S. Chemical Safety Board
- Eva Rowe » Parents were killed in Texas City explosion
- Red Cavaney » President and CEO