Oelwein Tank Car Deaths Prompt Safety Probe
Two workers died from suffocation while inspecting a nitrogen blanketed tank car owned by ADM Transportation Co. OSHA and Fayette County authorities investigate possible safety violations. The car had carried vegetable oil and was coated to keep oxygen out. the last cargo was soybean oil.
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Safety precautions in confined spaces at Transco plant
The report details air monitoring, retrieval lines, trained attendants, supplied air and communication gear as safety measures after two Transco workers died in Oelwein. Friends Dan Steil and John Woodson were longtime colleagues, and their deaths are mourned by family and company leadership. The Associated Press contributed to the story.
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Highway 100 plan faces opposition from board members
Board members criticized DOT mitigation for threatened species at the adjacent 20 acre Rock Island preserve as inadequate. They challenged a Federal Highway Administration designation for the extension, and DOT officials will hold a public hearing on the draft environmental impact statement Sept. 12 at Xavier High School from 5 to 8 p.m. with comments due by Sept. 24.
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Macedonia rebels to give up weapons
Macedonia and NATO officials say rebels will hand over about 3,000 weapons to NATO troops to kick off a voluntary disarmament mission aimed at easing civil conflict. The United States supports the operation without deploying forces.
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Bin Laden charged in New Delhi embassy bombing plot
Indian investigators charge Osama bin Laden and five others with planning to bomb the U S Embassy in New Delhi. The case cites statements from two arrested men and names Abdul Rehman Al Safani of Yemen as the mastermind. Four conspirators are held in Tihar Jail. one fugitive.
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