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Mills made his second appearance of the season a memorable one, nailing the game's final two goals with the same fancy footwork that earned him the top spot on the Crimson scoring list...
Unlike the FORTUNE 500 or Standard & Poor's 400, there is a roster of U.S. corporations to which no self-respecting chief executive aspires: the dishonor roll of companies charged by the Federal Government with failing to monitor adequately the safety of their workplaces. The list has swollen every month or so in the past year, as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has imposed unprecedented penalties on some of the nation's biggest and best-known companies. Among them: Ford Motor and Chrysler (the No. 2 and No. 3 U.S. automakers), Caterpillar (No. 1 among makers of construction equipment...
Less disputed is the idea that hazards abound in several occupations. Leading Labor's list of the most dangerous industries is meat-packing, where more than 3 out of 10 employees get hurt or become sick in work-related incidents every year. Also exceeding the national average: companies that make mobile homes (a 27.6% annual injury-and-illness rate in 1985), truck- and auto-body manufacturers (23.4%), building construction firms (15.1%) and farmers...
...agency's increasing reliance on self-regulation by companies has obvious shortcomings. At a John Morrell meat-packing plant in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., inspectors found 69 record-keeping infractions in a company log. On a list of injuries that supposedly resulted in no lost workdays: an amputation and a chemical burn. OSHA proposed a $690,000 fine on Morrell in April. After meat-packer IBP learned that its records would be inspected last January, OSHA alleges, the company assembled 50 employees to revise its logs. IBP, which is fighting the case, has been charged with 1,038 instances...
...GOOD to be back in the pages of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily, and for those of you who aren't on my select mailing list, here's a brief summary of what I've been doing this summer...