OSHA Investigating Postal Worker's Illness After Handling Package From Yemen
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the federal agency charged with monitoring worker safety, is investigating the illness of a U.S. Postal Service employee who handled a leaking package from Yemen at an Orlando mail-sorting facility.
The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting first reported that Jeffrey A. Lill experienced health problems after handling the parcel, which was leaking a brown viscous substance. Lill, 44, suffers from extreme fatigue, tremors, and liver and neurological problems consistent with toxic exposure.
The Postal Service has refused to investigate this and denied it happened. The incident happened Feb. 2011, and because of the stall tactics, ...
OSHA's investigation will likely be toothless, because federal law prohibits the agency from issuing citations for incidents that are more than six months old. Lill and two witnesses said the package came through Orlando on Feb. 4, 2011.
Two things...
1- The lies have got to stop. Too many people doing CYA operatioins these days. There's no blame. Nothing gets fixed. People who do wrong are not punished. Our borders are porous. Our postal system is porous.
2- What in the world is Yemen shipping here? For what purpose? And what have they shipped that hasn't leaked?
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