Worker Safety Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Alaska 1989

More than one in ten oil spill cleanup worker were injuried or became ill from the work cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, This cleanup was the first done under OSHA's then recent Hazwoper regulation and maybe the first time an OSHA program went into voluntary compliance mode (like the agency later did during the World Trade Center cleanup and Katrina) Contact me for more information on worker health and safety issues during this spill. I was living in Alaska at the time and worked with the Alaska Laborers Union on occupational health and safety concerns during the cleanup. My email is mdcatlin@verizon.net . For a detailed federal government review of worker health and safety issues, read the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) report, Alaska Oil Spill Health Hazard Evaluation (HETA 89-200 & 89-273-2111), published in May 1991 and available on the NIOSH website at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/1989-0200-2111.pdf . For more information on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill go to the Website - Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill at http://www.soundtruth.info/ This website is from Riki Ott, PhD, a marine oil pollution expert and former commercial fisherman in Alaska's Prince William Sound. She was on the scene before, during, and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and experienced firsthand the spill's effects, including environmental devastation, economic losses to the fishing industry, and psychosocial trauma to the close-knit community.

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[Cruithnii]

What are the odds it was a set up and they want to drill there.Who will lay me a fortune?Then the carefully recruited alcoholic patsy captains boat has a sabotaged inevitable accident.what better way for oil companies to move the population, turn the homes into an oil slick. Wauchet Auf.

[markdcatlin]

Dear Cruithnii,

But there is little oil in Prince William Sound - the site of the spill. The oil is 800 miles to the north. What I saw there in the 1980s were oil companies cutting costs and cutting corners in oil spill prevention - like eliminating, 1n 1988, the round the clock dedicated experienced oil spill response teams in Valdez that had successfully dealt with several hundred smaller spills.

[Kauboy84]

made me pretty pissed off! motherfucker!

[dmc081]

it's sad we should stop oil digging and find another way

[Habasch78]

NO word about Corexit. Corexit = Corpus Exitus as we have seen in the Gulf of Mexico

[jaydog7575]

The only beauty of all this is that the world's oil supply will be depleted in approximately 60 yrs. Then the kings of the earth will have to find another abomination to murder and steal from the little man. By then we'll all be slaves to their New World Order so it won't much matter anyway.

[DESERTSUN2010]

THIS WILL MAKE A GOOD VIDEO FOR OSHA.

[The777FORGIVEN]

For 50 years Americans have gone to war, done dirty deals with despots and regimes over oil. You are addicted to it. In the community of nations you are known as oil junkys. You want oil now you got it , suck it up and see the damage oil greed does to whole communitys and environment. The destruction you see is less than the damage your oil greed has left in its wake over the last 50 years. Now its on your doorstep see how you like it and ask if your big yank trucks and SUV are worth it?

[vonnareverse]

BP used a 5 year old Sea Floor Study, to Locate & drill In to the Mid Side OF a Black Smoker, Asphalt volcano. Compare live feed

BP CEO, Sold Much of his B.P.Stock, So did Goldman Sacks & Barak Obama. weeks before the Disaster

Dispersant BP is Using, banned In England Because of Toxic and hazardous to life.

the Entire Gulf region is now a, NO FLY ZONE. because there faking the clean up efforts, In what Is being called a Balloon & Pony Show.

be alert to Subs landing after FEMA camp Evac !

[Rac665]

This is mainstream media propaganda!!! The Exxon Valdez was not a ship but really an offshore drilling well pretending to be a ship...the reef hit the Drilling well...and it sunk. So all you liberal types..>STFU!

[Rac665]

DRILL BABY DRILL YEEEEHAW!

[crazman01]

How come the media isnt comparing this oil spill with the one in the gulf coast?