OSHA Finds Safety Violations Led to Death of Lab Worker

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a notice of unsafe and unhealthful working conditions to the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center after finding the hospital failed to protect laboratory workers researching Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterium that can cause meningitis.OSHA investigators found three serious violations connected to the death of Richard Din, a research associate at the center's research laboratory in April 2012.Din, employed by the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, was working at the VA Medical Center and was consi...