Staff Report on the Oversight of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with Respect to Grain Elevator Fires and Explosions.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Agriculture.

United States.

United States. General Accounting Office.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Library of Congress.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 pages) : digital, PDF file

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1980.

System Details:

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text file

PDF

Summary:

Appendices (pages 39-151) include lists of 1958-78 explosions (pages 40-45), detailed GAO data on six 1977-78 grain dust explosions and fires (pages 46-51) and texts of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1980 (pages 51-73) and Federal agencies regulations governing grain elevator safety (pages 73-151 passim).

Staff report, prepared for full committee by Subcom on Health and Safety with the assistance of Maury Aton (CRS), based on 95th Congress Subcom on Compensation, Health, and Safety 1978 hearings to examine causes and incidence of explosions and fires inside grain elevators and to determine how the health and safety of grain elevator employees can be protected.

Notes:

CRS Report.

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed June 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Staff Report on the Oversight of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with Respect to Grain Elevator Fires and Explosions. 80-H342-3

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