Word: niosh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health indicates that Labor's figures, which rely exclusively on reports from companies, might badly understate the dangers in American factories. Between 1980 and 1984, for example, Labor reported 19,700 occupational fatalities. But by examining death certificates, NIOSH discovered about 27,500 on-the-job fatalities in the same period...
...Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered in defense of this unethical, immoral decision is 'there is no legal responsibility for NIOSH to notify...