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Posted by GasVets on February 2, 2015
Filed Under: accidents, deaths, exposure, fracking, Gas Worker News, GasVet Studies, health impact survey, health impacts, health registry, hydraulic fracturing, jobs, worker deaths, worker harm

Tomblin Calls for Study of Increased Deaths from Gas Drilling Boom

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is calling for a study aimed at reversing the increase in workplace deaths that has accompanied the boom in natural gas drilling and production from the Marcellus Shale fields in Northern West Virginia. –

Read more at the Charleston Gazette….

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650 Fracking Compounds Contain Known or Potential Carcinogens

Physicians, Scientists & Engineers’ excellent video on impacts of fracking on workers:

Excellent video about the impacts of fracking and related activities on worker health. This is particularly interesting in light of silicosis and all of what NIOSH and OSHA have known for years. Please review our timeline of federal regulations, including what the Feds knew in 1988-89. (Graphic at bottom of this front page.)

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