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Fracking is a non-technical term for Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is a method for retrieving, otherwise inaccessible, natural gas and petroleum by injecting pressurized fluid and chemicals into underground rock causing fissures. The fissures widen and expand allowing petroleum and gas to escape and flow to areas where it can be retrieved. less -

OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Rule: Compliance Clock Ticks While Legal Challenges Mount

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/19/2016

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its final rule on “Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica” (the “Silica Rule”) on March 25, 2016, and as expected numerous manufacturing...more

A Beginner’s Guide to OSHA’s Final Silica Rule

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/9/2016

On March 24, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its final rule on occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. The rule was published in the Federal Register on March 25, 2016....more

OSHA Issues Final Silica Rule: What’s the Same and What’s Changed?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/28/2016

On March 25, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published in the Federal Register its final rule on occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E....more

OSHA proposes heightened standards for Crystalline Silica exposure – Opportunity to comment ends January 27

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP on 1/15/2014

In an attempt to strengthen its Crystalline Silica exposure rule, on September 12, 2013, OSHA proposed significant changes that could result in higher compliance costs and may require additional risk management strategies...more

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Fracking › Silica

OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Rule: Compliance Clock Ticks While Legal Challenges Mount

A Beginner’s Guide to OSHA’s Final Silica Rule

OSHA Issues Final Silica Rule: What’s the Same and What’s Changed?

OSHA proposes heightened standards for Crystalline Silica exposure – Opportunity to comment ends January 27

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