By Jim Malewitz, Mark Collette and Lise Olsen Studies pinpointed what went wrong in Texas City, but unsafe conditions persist. The geyser of toxic, highly flammable chemicals accidentally unloosed at the BP refinery in Texas City on March 23, 2005, would later be estimated at 7,600 gallons. All it took was a spark from a
Read more →By Jim Malewitz and Jolie McCullough Ten years after a fiery explosion killed 15 in Texas City, preventable deaths continue at refineries. At least 58 workers have died at U.S. refineries since March 23, 2005, slightly fewer than the number the decade before. Federal officials have tracked nearly 350 fires at U.S. refineries in the
Read more →Health care workers reported an estimated 9,200 workplace violence incidents requiring time away from work to recover during 2013, with the majority of these perpetrated by patients or their family members, wrote Dan Hartley, EdD, NIOSH workplace violence prevention coordinator.
Read more →NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend about a year living and working aboard the space station to help scientists learn more about how the human body adapts to long periods in zero gravity.
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