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According to a study conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), workers in the oil and natural gas industries are seven times as likely to die on the job as workers in other industries.

Motor vehicle accidents, blunt trauma and explosions are the most common causes of death.

Fatal, long-term health problems come from exposure to diesel exhaust, a proven cause of lung and bladder cancer

and asthma. Workers near drilling rigs, generators, transportation vehicles and depots are heavily exposed.

And now OSHA is warning that the silica dust used in the fracking process can cause lung cancer and tuberculosis.

Are these the kinds of jobs the gas companies have been talking about? Will they be around to pay the hospital bills of sickened workers, or will the government have to create another special victims fund?

Tell Governor Cuomo that hazardous fracking jobs are not the kind of jobs New Yorkers

want, need or deserve.

Call the Governor’s office right now: (518) 474-8390.