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...Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains, a man was killed when he was buried under seven feet of earth 35 feet into a tunnel under construction, Pasadena Fire Battalion Chief Duncan Baird said...
...alleging that workers at a Newark, Del., assembly plant were exposed to high levels of arsenic and lead in the paint and soldering areas. (The company plans to pay the $1.6 million fine.) In Chicago, ten of the 5,000 workers who have helped build the so-called Deep Tunnel project, which has created 50 miles of underground passageways for flood and sewage control, have died in construction accidents since 1975. Grain Belt workers face combines with sharp blades that sever fingers and limbs, foul-smelling air in hog-farrowing barns that can cause lung disease, and an array...
...officials estimate that more than one-third of the nation's 175,000 packinghouse workers -- 160 victims each day -- will suffer a serious injury or illness this year. Because meat-packing employees must work swiftly with sharp knives and cleavers, severe cuts and fractures are common. So is carpal- tunnel syndrome, a painful wrist condition caused by a repetitive chopping motion that swells tendons, pinches nerves and sometimes requires corrective surgery. Many workers in IBP's Dakota City, Neb., plant "stand on treacherously slippery floors covered with animal fat," contends Lewie Anderson, vice president of the 1.3 million-member United...
...said a Massachusetts law barring state property like the tunnel from producing "environmental hazards" may make it illegal to run air hammers there at three in the morning...
...compositions of door, windows, fabrication scars and joints. The Protestant chapel (1985) on the top of Mount Rokko, outside Kobe, was the perfect Ando commission. "The process of preparing ourselves for the spirituality of religion takes time," he says, and so the entrance to the chapel is a colonnaded tunnel. The chapel itself is a deep, 24-ft. by 24-ft. concrete box, with one side an expanse of glass overlooking the garden...