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Opinion: A Call for Sound Science

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration would prefer to automate your job and as a result eliminate tens of thousands of American jobs rather than admit its proposed ergonomic rule is built on unsound science. OSHA even refuses to acknowledge that the very experts on this issue — physicians — don’t see eye to eye on the causes and cures of so-called ergonomic ailments (often called repetitive stress injuries) and that physicians actually find a rule on ergonomics extremely controversial.

Rep. Roy Blunt | Mr. Blunt is a Republican congressman from Missouri. He is the Chief Deputy Majority Whip and a member of the Commerce Committee in the House of Representatives.
May 12, 1999