Great news for the Bush administration's workplace safety and health program -- "positive news for our nation and all workers " -- according to OSHA head Edwin Foulke. In 2005, only 15.6 workers were killed every day in on-the-job "accidents, a precipitous decline from the 15.8 workers killed in the workplace every day during 2004. That would be a total of 5,702 last year, down from 5,764 in 2004, according to the 2005 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries released last week.
Good news, unless you're one of the 50,000 - 60,000 workers who die of workplace disease every year from exposure...
