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An OSHA official said it will take about six months to investigate the death of Jay M. Van Buskirk, 47, who fell off a man-lift at the ConAgra grain elevator in Alton, IL. Van Buskirk had reportedly been affected by the heat and told witnesses he was feeling dizzy prior to his fatal fall.
The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration will be investigating Saturday’s incident at the ConAgra flourmill in which an employee fell to his death.
Jay Van Buskirk was going down when he fell off, a spokeswoman for ConAgra said.
It was reported that Van Buskirk fell while descending on a “man-lift”, which can be described as a vertically mounted conveyor belt that passes from floor to floor of the facility.
Van Buskirk fell from the device between the fourth and fifth floor landings. Investigators from the Madison County Coroner’s Office determined the height of the fall to have been between approximately 56 and 74 feet.
Witnesses reported that Van Buskirk had complained of feeling dizzy prior to the mishap, Coroner Steve Nonn said.
According to the police report, Cranmer read that heat had affected Van Buskirk, and he mentioned he needed a...
STX Group announced recently that it had formed a business partnership with Nonghyup Feed Co. in Portland, Oregon, to import U.S. corn for about one year starting November 2012.
The partnership contract states that STX will be responsible for shipping about 700,000 tons of U.S. corn to Korea for livestock feed. The corn will be processed and distributed by Nonghyup Feed, which holds about an 18 percent share of the livestock feed market here.
More in the Korea Herald
The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance will hold meetings this month by ILA-USMX committees assigned specific issues in negotiations for a new East and Gulf Coast labor contract.
The joint committees are scheduled to meet Aug. 22-24 in Delray Beach, Fla. The small groups’ meetings will be followed by full negotiations. No date has been set for those.
More at the Journal of Commerce
A stricken German cargo ship that was on fire for several weeks is now being towed aimlessly around the Atlantic Ocean because no European port will allow it to dock. The German owners are losing patience.
“I think it’s ridiculous that a ship sailing under a German flag in this situation can’t get permission from countries in the European community,” said Helmut Ponath, head of the shipping company NSB, on Thursday.
Fire broke out on the appropriately named “MSC Flaminia” for unknown reasons in mid-July, when it en route from Charleston, US, to Antwerp, Belgium.
One sailor was killed while another is still missing. The rest of the crew and two passengers were successfully rescued. The huge boat was floating around in the ocean unmanned and ablaze for some time until salvage workers were able to get aboard.
The fire has now been brought under control. The shipping company says the situation on board is stable, but there could still be small fires in individual containers.
Salvage workers have been on board in the past few days, though they have been hindered by bad weather. Ponath said that salvage work would be difficult unless the ship finds a...
From respected writer and photographer David Bacon:
Janitors March and Threaten to StrikeThe national confrontation between janitors and some of the world’s richest property owners has arrived San Francisco, where on Wednesday over two thousand building cleaners shut down the city’s main artery, Market Street, in a huge march. Later twenty-seven workers and supporters were arrested in a financial district intersection, as they blocked it in an act of civil disobedience.
Among the many banners carried by the marchers, by far the most common was one that said “We Are Ready to Strike the 1%.” It clearly summed up workers’ anger, which made this march even larger than one three days earlier, and others organized during the weeks prior.
Contractors are demanding that workers pay $600 a month for family healthcare coverage. They offer a raise of 50¢ an hour, which would total about $85, resulting in an effective wage cut of $515 a month.
Read more at TruthOut
From a BNSF News Release:
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) plans to invest an estimated $106 million on maintenance and rail capacity improvement and expansion projects in Washington this year.
BNSF’s 2012 capacity enhancement projects in Washington include the construction of a new lead to access the Port of Longview, as well as significant signal upgrades for federally mandated positive train control (PTC).
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Ecuadorian ministries and institutions are analyzing continuing their cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), after questioning the real objectives of its presence here.
Although the government will make the final decision, the results of these consultations and the scenarios of an eventual decision to expel USAID from Ecuador are being analyzed in detail.
A journalistic investigation by the newspaper El Telegrafo showed an evident contradiction among U.S. authorities regarding the objectives of USAID in the region.
More at Prensa Latina
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