Posted on 02/08/2010 2:20:01 PM PST by raybbr
MIDDLETOWN -
The five people who died in the Kleen Energy plant explosion on Sunday included three Connecticut residents, as well as one man from Missouri and one from Canada.
Peter Chetulis of Thomaston; Chris Walters of Florissant, Missouri, and Roy Rushton of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, were killed in the blast, according to a release from the Middletown Police Department. Colchester resident Ronald Crabb, 42, and Old Saybrook resident Raymond E. Dobratz, 58, were also killed.
Crabb and Dobratz worked as pipefitters. It was unclear what jobs the other men held. The cause of death was undetermined, the release states.
A van carrying the remains those killed left the plant about 1:45 p.m. Monday, headed to the medical examiner's office in Farmington.
Authorities said that while they have accounted for everyone who was supposed to be working at the plant at the time of the explosion, they are not yet certain they have found all the dead and injured.
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Courtney said, "The problem is, as Rosa knows, that OSHA, over the last eight years, has almost ceased to exist in terms of a functioning agency. It's issued almost no workplace regulations literally, in the last eight or nine years. So our committee has had to pull up some of these issues that have been stuck in the bureaucratic process and bring them out as acts of Congress."
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
Issuing no regulations doesn’t mean no regulations exist. Plenty exist! OSHA has not ceased to exist or anything of the kind.
Typical Democrat blather...
I thought she is married to a Democrat pollster.
His name is Stanly Greenberg.
Lucky Stan! ;)
So THAT is what you get if you breed Helen Thomas to Janet Reno!
Courtney has always been a minor league thinker. I have dealt with him many times in my law practice and his only claim to fame in law was he could handle a house closing as long as he had a good para professional to do the work.
If Simmons had been anything but a RINO, Courtney would still be handling small claims cases.
LOL! Each state has its own OSHA, here in Michigan its MIOSHA..........
Tell her to take it up with the state of Connecticut.........
Unless you're female, I doubt (but could be wrong -- looks can be deceiving) there is much risk of that happening. ;-')
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