That is really strange, it worked for me so it seemed natural to assume it would
work for you.  They play some really wierd games with those articles.  It is
here:
OSHA taken to task on beryllium
By Sam Roe
Tribune staff reporter

February 12, 2005

Two congressmen and two activist groups are calling for the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration to increase safeguards and medical testing for
hundreds of agency inspectors exposed to the toxic metal beryllium.

"The very agency charged with safeguarding health and safety in the workplace is
failing to protect its own workers," Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) wrote this
week to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, whose department oversees OSHA. Miller
wants OSHA to detail the safety steps it is taking.

His letter to Chao also was signed by Rep. Major Owens (D-N.Y.), and the
watchdog groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the FIGHT
Project sent similar letters.

The Tribune reported last month that at least three OSHA employees developed
blood abnormalities after conducting inspections in facilities handling
beryllium, a lightweight metal whose dust can cause an often-fatal lung disease.

An OSHA spokesman said the agency would not comment until it completes medical
screening of its inspectors. So far, 265 have been tested. The agency estimates
that 1,000 inspectors, or three-fourths of its force, have conducted inspections
in industries using beryllium.

Scientists have long known that microscopic bits of beryllium can cause
beryllium disease or blood abnormalities linked to the illness. Workers with
seemingly incidental exposure have been affected, including secretaries in
beryllium processing plants. OSHA's cases--the first at the agency--suggest an
even wider group of workers might be at risk.

Miller, the senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee,
said in an interview that OSHA should test its former inspectors too.

"This isn't complicated," he said. "This is how you are supposed to treat one
another."

OSHA has been criticized for years for downplaying the hazards of beryllium,
which has killed hundreds of workers since the 1940s.

The Public Employees watchdog group assailed the safety agency for repeatedly
delaying the testing of inspectors. The group asked OSHA to provide the
Environmental Protection Agency a list of workplaces with high levels of
beryllium dust so the EPA might notify and test its exposed inspectors.

The FIGHT Project asked for an investigation into the facilities that affected
OSHA inspectors.

"OSHA inspectors only spend a small time in these facilities," founder Ron Hayes
wrote to Chao. "I'm worried about the workers," who spend much more time in the
facilities. ...

    It actually would make a good movie.  The story starts with atomic bombs,
the cold war, and bomb plant workers who just might not be patriotic enough to
continue showing up for work if they were trusted with complete knowledge.

 FYI: The *very first* thing that OSHA tried to regulate when it was first
formed was beryllium, they got shot down by the government.  Now this.

Vaughn