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More Than 4,600 U.S. Workers Were Killed On The Job In 2012
More than 4,600 U.S. workers were killed on the job and an estimated 50,000 died from occupational diseases during 2012, a new report from the AFL-CIO labor federation found. The federation's annual report, Death on the Job, analyzes the most recent data on workplace...
Despite NHRC plea, Gujarat govt says there is no need to pay compensation to victims of deadly silicosis
By Our Representative The Gujarat government has said it has “decided” not to pay Rs 5 lakh each as compensation against five confirmed cases of silicosis death, despite a National Human Right Commission (NHRC) direction to the state officialdom to do so. The workers...
International Workers Memorial Day Asbestos demonstration outside Russian Embassy in London, April 26
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How the shiny ‘agate’ stones in jewelry and rosary beads are killing workers
KHAMBHAT, India — A few years ago, when occupational safety activists came to Hydersha Diwan's village here, 300 miles north of Mumbai, he drove them away with threats and bluster.Today, he wishes that he'd listened. Doctors say the 50-year-old is dying of silicosis,...
पत्थर से लदे हुये दो ट्रैक्टर ट्रॉली जप्त
बन विभाग के उड़नदस्ते ने की कारवाई बन क्षेत्र से कथित तौर से अवैध तरीके से ट्रॉली से लदे हुये दो ट्रैक्टर को पन्ना बन विभाग के अधिकारियों ने अपने कब्जे मे ले लिया।यह कार्यवाही लक्ष्मीपुर के नजदीक हुई है। जब्त ट्रैक्टर ट्रॉली रज्ज्न अरजरिया के बताए जा रहे है। विस्तार...