August 13, 2012 at 08:39 PM
Six companies engaged in manufacturing coal slag products have agreed to disclose the content of beryllium contained in the slag on hazard communication data sheets, bowing to Public Citizen's demand for disclosure of the substance, the public interest group says. OSHA, facing pressure from Public Citizen, told Inside OSHA Online earlier this year that it would direct field offices to probe if coal slag manufacturers were complying with the hazcom standard, and one of the six companies says it decided to disclose the data after receiving a request from Minnesota OSHA. A former OSHA official la