OSHA Working For Automakers?

It's hard to believe that OSHA would actually agree with or use reports funded by the auto industry to conclude that asbestos in brakes isn't harmful to mechanics. But that seems to be exactly what is happening. Ira Wainless is an OSHA scienctist who is being forced to change warnings for brakes, in what appears to be an effort by the auto industry to limit their damages in asbestos lawsuits, to now claim that asbestos in brakes is not a danger to mechanics.

Last week, David Ippolito, an official with OSHA's Directorate of Science, Technology and Medicine, told Wainless that he would be suspended without pay for 10 days if the changes weren't made, according to documents.