LIVE NOW 10:30 am HELP Committee Hearing Under Reporting of Workplace Injury

[Guest guest]

The House Education and Labor Committee will hold a hearing on " The Hidden

Tragedy: Underreporting of Workplace Injury and Illness statistics " today,

Thursday June 19th at 10:30 am.

You can view the hearing live by webcast here:

_http://edlabor.house.gov/committee/hearings.shtml_

(http://edlabor.house.gov/committee/hearings.shtml)

(or later on an archived webcast)

Witnesses

A.C. Span, Jr.

A.C. Span worked for six months at the Bashas' Distribution Center, a food

warehouse and distribution center located in Chandler, Arizona. Originally

from Chicago, A.C. worked in home construction before moving to Arizona. He is

the father of an 18 year old daughter. As a " baler " at Bashas', A.C. loaded

and unloaded trucks, sorted pallets, cleaned ice cream totes and flattened

cardboard boxes. In January, 2008, he was fired from Bashas'.

Dr. McLellan, MD

Dr. McLellan is the Immediate Past President of the American College of

Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He is a board certified occupational

medicine physician with additional board certification in family medicine. Dr.

McLellan has had extensive experience as an occupational medical consultant

to business in a wide range of economic sectors, including health care,

manufacturing, nuclear energy, and public safety.

Baruch Fellner

Baruch Fellner is representing the US Chamber of Commerce. He is a partner

at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., practicing in the area of labor

relations. He has also worked in the solicitor's office at the Department

of Labor and in the appellate court branch at the National Labor Relations

Board. Mr. Fellner received his B.A. from Washington University and his

law degree from Harvard Law School.

W. Ruser

W. Ruser has served as Assistant Commissioner for Safety, Health and

Working Conditions at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics since November 2006.

Dr. Ruser is responsible for the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, the

Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses and special surveys. Mr. Ruser

holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago and a

B.A. in economics from Princeton University.

Rosenman, MD

Dr. Rosenman is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of

Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Michigan State University. Dr.

Rosenman is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine. He

received his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1975. He is a

Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and the American College of

Preventive Medicine. He has published approximately 145 articles on

occupational

and environmental disease.

Bob Whitmore

Mr. Whitmore was in charge of OSHA's Injury and Illness Recordkeeping

activities in the Office of Statistical Analysis since 1988 and was employed as

an

Economist in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from 1972 until late 1990.

He has been the Department of Labor's expert witness for OSHA Recordkeeping

litigation, a member of the OSHA significant case team and has personally

reviewed all " egregious " and significant recordkeeping cases since late 1986.

He

obtained his B.S. degree in economics from the University of Baltimore in

1972.

He is speaking today on behalf of himself and not representing OSHA.

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