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Workers'
Compensation
Workers' Compensation is good
for an employee who has an injury that does not produce long-term bad
effects.
I hold the people, who make the
laws, responsible for providing more protection to the employer than to
the injured/dependents of killed employees.
The reason I requested a copy
of that consent form is because I sensed the plant manager was
withholding information about the facts surrounding my husband's death
that night. I don't know why he bothered to be there if he wasn't going
to tell me anything.
After one minute with him, I
told my self, "get a copy of everything."
OSHA
The OSHA interview tape on June
5, 1999 confirms my suspicions.
If it weren't for OSHA and FOIA
(Freedom of Information Act), I still would not know the true facts
surrounding my husband's death.
You can request a copy of the
OSHA investigation video tape via FOIA call 1-800-892-2674. Ask for
person in charge of FOIA. Inspection #302247218. There is a small fee
for this tape.
Also, see copy of first letter
I received from OSHA in public awareness items. I still have a lot of
questions and no answers.
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The
Consent
After my husband was killed,
the nurse at the hospital asked me if I wanted to donate my husband's
anatomical gifts. I said yes. As we walked back to the emergency room,
after visiting the morgue, she asked me again. Again, I said yes. Then
she asked me if I felt comfortable with that. I told her I wouldn't feel
comfortable saying no, knowing my husband's wishes were to say yes -- to
help others if he could. I requested a copy of the consent form right
after I signed it.
Two months later I learned that
the nurse altered/forged the consent form after I left. No one from that
hospital will tell me why.
I learned that when the eye
bank receives consent, they send an acknowledgment. To this day, the eye
bank has never sent one.
No one from the hospital, eye
bank, tissue bank has ever let me know, "this is wrong and this
will not be tolerated."
Just as shocking as finding out
what happened, is the fact there is no law prohibiting this.
The Pettis County District
Attorney would not charge that nurse with forgery because she did not
make any monetary gains from what she did.
What good did it do for me to
say yes that night?
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