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Air of danger


Air of danger
WTHR - Soldiers, police and firefighters are workers who expect to face risk on the job. For the majority of people who work at a desk in an office, though, calculating danger in the workplace is not a part of the daily routine. But it did become part of

Company to contest OSHA penalty
Pantagraph - BLOOMINGTON - A local contractor for street improvements around the U.S. Cellular Coliseum received a $197,500 fine for exposing workers to potential trench cave-ins. R.A. Cullinan and Son Inc., which said it will contest the ruling, received the

Sawyer County Record
Sawyer County Record - A panel of forest product experts painted a picture of economic struggle, but also foresaw hope in new uses for wood as they addressed more than 500 people attending the 26th annual Loggers Conference at Telemark Lodge last Friday. Fiber prices

Quincy center to provide opportunity for emergency personnel to train
Quincy Herald-Whig - Tucked off to the side of Quincy University's North campus and 18th Street is one of the state's newest training facilities. The $1.3 million Quincy Regional Emergency Services Training Center will be unveiled at a 10 a.m. Saturday. The center is on

Deadly heights
Orlando Business Journal - While doing roof repairs at a warehouse behind NASA's Kennedy Space Center headquarters on March 17, 46-year-old construction worker Steven Owens fell 16 feet. Emergency personnel rushed to the site and a helicopter airlifted him to an Orlando

Human orbital spaceflight: the ultralight approach
Space Review - Entrepreneurial breakthroughs in technology have always hinged on producing workable designs at affordable cost, and this usually required radically minimal design. Such a focus allowed Jacques Cousteau to prove that an affordable SCUBA system

DEA Agent Who Shoots Himself In The Foot Blames Gov't For His Problems
Tech Dirt - About a year ago, one of the more amusing "viral" videos that got passed around like crazy was the one of the DEA agent giving a bunch of children a lecture about the danger of guns. Just as he says he's the only one in the room professional enough