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Lawmakers want safety reviews company-wide: OSHA practices make it hard to identify patterns of work hazards throughout a company

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Workplace safety accidents and even near-misses should prompt regulators to conduct company-wide reviews to look for similar hazards at other plants, lawmakers said Wednesday.

Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., held a hearing to examine how to prevent accidents like the one that killed Eleazar Torres-Gomez, who died last year at a Cintas Corp. laundry in Tulsa when a conveyer belt dragged him into an industrial dryer operating at 300 degrees.

It wasn't the first time such accidents had happened at facilities owned by Cintas, the largest uniform supplier in North America. Woolsey, chairwoman of the House labor subcommittee on work-force protections, released documents detailing three other "close calls" involving employees who fell into washers and a dryer.

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