Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Thursday, Apr 20, 1989


Title: Burning Questions: Working in America: Hazardous Duty

Abstract:

An examination of US job safety with Forrest Sawyer (ABC); taped segment with Sawyer, former Rep. Vito Marcantonio, Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union member Anthony Mazzocchi, and Farmington, West Virginia coal mine explosion survivor Gary Martin; taped segment with Gail Harris (ABC), farm safety expert Dr. David Pratt, Professor Bill Field, UMW member Leonard Fleming, Attorney Davitt McAteer, Building and Trades Union member Martin Ploof, OSHA Regional Director John Miles, and Food Workers Union member Eleanor Kennelly; taped segment with Greg Dobbs (ABC), Indoor Environment Consultant Gray Robertson, EPA Hazardous Waste Department employee Vanessa Musgrave, Brian Rooney (ABC), and Dr. Daniel Teitlebaum; taped segment with Bettina Gregory (ABC), former OSHA Administrator John Pendergass, former OSHA Advisory Board Chairman Nicholas Ashford, former President Ronald Reagan, consumer advocate Joan Claybrook, IBP CEO Robert Peterson, New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, and NV State Inspector Jerry Sieren; taped segment with Greg Dobbs (ABC), worker safety advocate Charles Richardson, Jean Kessner (ABC), and Attorney Amanda Hawes; concluding segment and commentary by Sawyer.

Begin Time:09:00:00 pm
End Time:09:58:00 pm
TVN Record Number:646419
Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1989-2009 Vanderbilt University
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