Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs

The Department of Labor has many activities to foster and promote the safety and health of workers. The Women s Bureau seeks to improve women s working conditions. Other important agencies are the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Office of Workers Compensation Program. 

Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP) This agency develops and recommends standards for state workers compensation laws and provides technical help to states. It also administers three workers ... 

Safety and mission assurance. This measure will assess NASA s ability to reduce the number of fatalities, injury/iUness rate. Office of Workers Compensation Program chargebacks, and material losses. 

Daniel M. Berman, Death on the Job 19 (1978) Martha T. McCluskey, Efficiency and Social Citizenship Challenging the Neo-Liberal Attack on the Welfare State, 78 Ind. L. J. 783, 848-49 (2003) Martha T. McCluskey, The Illusion of Efficiency in Workers Compensation Reform, 50 Rutgers L. Rev. 657,669-72 (1998) Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Office of Workers Compensation Programs, State Workers Compensation Laws Table 6 (Washington, 1990). 

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For example, in Mitchell v. Director, Office of Worker s Compensation Programs, 855 F.2d 485 (7th Cir. 1988), the court found that a railroad employee who worked under the direction of coal mine employees at the mine site and who helped prepare coal for delivery should he considered a miner. Additionally, a railroad brake-man/conductor was a coal miner under the Black Lung Benefits Act because he hauled raw coal from mines to a preparation plant and spent a significant amount of time in or around the mine. Norfolk Western Railway Co. V. Roberson, 918 F.2d 1144 (4di Cir.), cert, denied, 500 U.S. 916. 

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