Donald M. Payne
Congressional Hearings On Industrial Deaths: January 14, in Linden NJ.
The House Committee on Education & Labor will hold a field hearing on January 14, 2007: "Workplace Tragedies: Examining Problems and Solutions," scheduled at 2:00 p.m. in the Linden, NJ City Hall.
Its Sub-Committee on Work Force Protections, chaired by Lynn Woolsey (CA-06), will focus on recent on-the-job deaths, especially those of Victor & Carlos Diaz who died Dec.1, 2007 while cleaning a 20,000 gallon dilution tank. (Need background? Try prior posts here , here, and here .)The workers (who were not related) had no respiratory protection whatsoever. A key sub-committee member Donald Payne (NJ-10) represents Linden so I spoke to his senior labor staffer, LaVerne Alexander. She said she expected other NJ Congress Members to attend and that experts on confined space safety, union experts and relatives of the families to testify.
I also spoke to one union expert, Eric Frumin, who is the Safety & Health Director of Unite-Here –
Donald M. Payne | Lynn Woolsey | UNITE-HERE
