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...OSHA was set up to protect 50 million workers from safety hazards in their 4 million places of work. People who are self-employed are excluded from OSHA's scrutiny; so are farmers with ten or fewer workers. Safety in some kinds of employment?mining, railways, airlines, highways, atomic energy???is regulated by other federal agencies. An estimated 4,500 workers died in 1976 from accidents or disease related to their jobs (down from 5,200 in 1975). But OSHA has overreacted by jamming every conceivable danger, however remote, into a 7-ft.-thick code that must be the world...
...Boulder Dam. The Legislature at Albany passed a bill creating a State Power Authority to conduct this ambitious utility enterprise. The Power Authority will construct a $171,547,000 dam and generating plant near Massena Point on the international rapids of the St. Lawrence River. It will market the energy??? some 2,000,000 h. p.?there produced, through private distributing agencies already in the utility field...