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Winrock International awarded $4.5M to reduce child labor in cocoa-growing communities in Ghana

11/10/2015 02:00 PM EST

Implement a project to empower cocoa-growing communities and help youth further their education or develop marketable skills.

Unguarded balcony, lack of fall protection cause death of Dallas construction worker, OSHA finds

11/10/2015 01:15 PM EST

A fall from a third-story balcony killed 44-year-old Jorge Carrion Torres as he worked on the exterior of an apartment complex on May 14, 2015. Torres, who had been on the job for one month, was applying stucco underlayment to the balcony walls when the incident occurred. His employer had not installed scaffolding and had not provided Torres or his co-workers with personal fall protection.

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