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housesub4you -> RE: Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard (6/18/2010 4:34:46 PM)
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Perhaps but you can't cry wolf when it is BP who is doing the lying and they checked the safety for the reason listed, people working on those vessels are getting sick so, they need to have what they are suppose to have to treat people
Although Louisiana state records indicate that at least 74 oil spill workers have complained of becoming sick after exposure to pollutants, BP’s own official recordkeeping notes just two such incidents. BP reported a wide range of worker injuries in the period from April 22 to June 10 , from the minor — a sprained ankle, a pinched finger and a cat bite — to the more serious — three instances of workers being struck by lightning and one worker who lost part of a finger. The gap between the state data and BP’s… raises questions about whether the federal government can rely on BP to determine whether conditions remain safe for the more than 27,000 workers now engaged in cleaning up the worst oil spill in the nation’s history. As other workers have reported flu-like symptoms caused by Toxicant-Induced Loss of Tolerance, which causes patients to “lose tolerance to household products, medication, or even food after being exposed to chemicals like burning oil, toxic fumes, or dispersants from the spill.” In fact, BP accounts for “97 percent of ‘egregious willful’ violations given by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.”
So blame it on Obama if you must, but the safety of those people on the vessels should also be a concern to BP and Piyush Jindel, and since BP could care less about the people actually doing the clean-up the Coast Guard has to
Of course Piyush Jindal could be concerned for reasons that have nothing to do with health and safety of the workers Seems he sees his star on the raise. Gee using a disaster for political gain, no one in the GOP has ever done that before
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/08/politics/main6560938.shtml
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