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Thursday, May 06, 2004
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12:00 AM
by Jordan
POPCORN LUNG INDEX
"Is butter flavoring ruining popcorn workers' lungs?" USA Today, June 19, 2002
Confined Space Articles Lungs of the Living Dead , March 1, 2004Popcorn Workers Lung Trial Begins Better Late Than Never: EPA Tests Microwave Popcorn More on Popcorn Lung Trial , March 9, 2004Popcorn Lung Trial Update 3 , March 10, 2004Popcorn Lung Trial Update 4 , March 11, 2004Jury Awards Popcorn Lung Victim $20 million: What Have We Learned? March 15, 2004Let No Rat Die In Vain , March 16, 2004Interview With Eric Peoples , March 17, 2004"Astonishingly Grotesque" Popcorn Lung Shows Failure of Regulatory System , April 4, 2004Popcorn Lung on NPR , April 20, 2004Second Popcorn Lung Trial Ends , May 2, 2004Second Popcorn Lung Suit Settled Third Popcorn Lung Trial Ends In Victory For Worker Manufactured Uncertainty Kills Workers , April 17, 2005Take four bulldozers and put them on your chest. Then put an elephant on top of those bulldozers. November 25, 2005Can We Still Trust Popcorn? Maybe Not If These Guys Say It's OK , April 27, 2006Government To Workers: Cough Your Lungs Out And Drop Dead , April 24, 2006Popcorn Lung Victim Dies: "Knowing That It Could Have been Avoided" , May 3, 2006NIOSH, Congress Investigate Popcorn Lung , June 6, 2006Popcorn Lung: Unions Petition OSHA To Deal With Slow-Motion Chemical Disaster , July 26, 2006 Popcorn Workers Lung: OSHA's Strange Definition of "Emergency" July 27, 2006Popcorn Lung: The Tragedy Continues , August 1, 2006Your Job Or Your Life: Popcorn Lung Comes To Wisconsin , October 22, 2006Are Respirators Enough To Protect Workers Against Popcorn Lung? , December 6, 2006CalOSHA Standards Board Chickens Out of Issuing Emergency Temporary Standard for Popcorn Lung , January 20, 2007
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Speech on Receiving the APHA Lorin Kerr Award by Jordan Barab, November 9, 2004
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Top 10 Workplace Safety Stories of 2004
Top 14 Workplace Safety Stories of 2003
Acts of God, Acts of Man," by Jordan Barab, Working USA
Lies, Partisanship Caused Ergo Standard to Crumble, by Jordan Barab, Safety + Health, February 2002
A Week of Death, by Jordan Barab, Hazards, February 5, 2003
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