Wyoming Senate kills workplace safety bill
Posted: Mar 2, 2010 3:40 PM
Updated: Mar 2, 2010 3:40 PM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A bill that would have increased employer penalties for workplace safety violations has died in the Wyoming Senate.
The Senate on Tuesday killed House Bill 93 in a tied vote of 15-15.
The bill had come out of a worker safety task force that Gov. Dave Freudenthal appointed last year to address the state's chronically high worker fatality rate.
Opponents in the Senate included Sen. Charles Scott, a Casper Republican. He said he saw it as a throwback to the early days of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, when the agency often hit private industry with high fines.
Democratic Sen. Kathryn Sessions of Cheyenne spoke in favor of the bill. She said her husband was an oil field roughneck and she saw firsthand that they needed more protection.
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