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WALL STREET JOURNAL
September 18, 2000, Monday
SECTION: Section A; Page 1, Column 1
LENGTH: 64 words
HEADLINE:
PROPOSED OSHA RULES FOR WORKPLACE INJURIES MAKE COMPANIES ACHE
BYLINE: BY PHIL KUNTZ
JOURNAL-CODE: WSJ
ABSTRACT:
Osha set out decade ago to protect workers from
repetitive stress injuries that affect about 200,000 workers a
year, but effort has expanded so that agency's proposed ergomonic rules create
whole new class of injury, work-related musculoskelatal disorders, that affect
as many as 1.8 million workers; critics say new rules would turn a pulled muscle
into an industrial emergency (L)
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