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Protecting at-risk workers OSHA’s new program aims to reduce injuries in food manufacturing
`BY RACHEL ABBEY MCCAFFERTY Food processing is a field that comes with many risks: sharp equipment, high temperatures, caustic chemicals. • A new program from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration aims to better protect the workers in that industry, reducing injuries and fatalities. • In October, OSHA started outreach for its new Local Emphasis Program in food processing in Ohio and Illinois. There are more than 1,400 manufacturing sites in the two states where workers make animal-based, plant-based or confectionery products, a news release noted. • And it’s dangerous work. Injury rates among the more than 90,000 food production workers at those sites are notably higher than those for other types of manufacturing jobs. • For example, OSHA found that in 2019, Ohio’s food production workers had almost a 57% higher rate of amputation and a 16% See OSHA on Page 17 higher rate of fracture than manufacturers in the private sector overall, the release said.
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Firm selected to operate Buckeye State spends big bucks Ohio leads the nation Cuyahoga County utility in betting in sports BY KIM PALMER
Cuyahoga County is one crucial step closer to realizing the goal of the outgoing administration to offer a modern electrical grid system providing resilient, non-interrupted power to some of the region’s commercial, industrial and manufacturing businesses. In what was former County Execu-
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tive Armond Budish’s final official announcement, Compass Energy Platform was selected to set up and operate the county’s public utility, which was created to build out a series of regional microgrids that use locally generated power from places such as a large solar array in Brooklyn.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers and Caesars Sportsbook celebrated the ceremonial grand opening for Caesars Sportsbook at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. | CLEVELAND CAVALIERS
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Late New Year’s Eve, Adam Suliman, JACK’s senior vice president for sports and digital gaming, went from being bummed that fans couldn’t bet on that night’s Ohio State-Georgia game to thinking, “What happens if this game goes into overtime?” “Our team was kind of nervous because we knew we were going to get slammed by people wanting to place bets on the game,” Suliman said. Alas, as the clock struck midnight, legalized sports gambling arrived in Ohio in the most Ohio way possible — with one of its beloved sports teams suffering a heartbreaking loss. See GAMBLING on Page 16
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