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On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
It is bizarre, it is obscene in a way, that folks go to work every day sometimes in dangerous industries, and because of the lack of protections, they don't come home.
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Stephen Lynch
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Lynch criticizes the lack of safety protections for workers in hazardous jobs.

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