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

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] [publisher not identified] 1980

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

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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

Publisher Number:

CRS-1980-CRS-0005

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