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OSHA Works With USDA On New Small Farm Guide After Yanking Contentious Grain Handling Memo


February 25, 2014 at 11:03 PM
OSHA is working with the Agriculture Department and farmer groups to craft new guidance balancing the agency's focus on preventing fatalities at grain handling facilities against congressional restrictions on small farm enforcement, after having pulled a contentious June 2011 memo that GOP lawmakers charged violated appropriators' ban on small farm enforcement.

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