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Playing Industrial Hygiene to Win
How Much Work-Related Injury and Illness is Missed by the Current National Surveillance System? (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, April 2006)
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"Dangerous Business" - A long 3-part article about McWane, Incorporated, an employer that wrang profits from blood and sweat, published in the New York Times in December 2002, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
"When Workers Die" A long 3-part article about the large number of workers who die each year as a result of an employer's negligence and the very small number of employers who are prosecuted in that situation, published by the New York Times in December 2003, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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