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Hi,

Thanks for stopping by to take a look! We hope that you will find some useful information as you browse this site. We welcome you as part of this informal group where we can communicate about what is going on in the industry regarding MSHA. Please feel free to leave your comments (but remember that MSHA does read this site too.) To contact us through the phone or email with your stories and concerns, call Cary or Kathy Matthews, at 541-536-1771 or 541-410-4673 (Cary's cell). Our fax number is 541-536-1772. You can email us at: lapineredimixinc@hotmail.com

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We encourage you to join up with your local aggregate association, because there is strength in numbers. If there is not one in your area yet, please consider forming one.

Take care, and remember to be in contact with your state officials to voice your concerns about MSHA. Our tax dollars pay for MSHA, which is under the Department of Labor. Our fine money goes into the general fund, and we cannot afford to keep paying out costly fines on the more and more frequent trivial citations to essentially support government spending. At least that is how I feel about it.

~ Kathy


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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Getting the Attendtion of our Federal Senators:


OIAA Board Member Jerry Davidson

On January 8, in Oakridge, Oregon, OIAA board member Jerry Davidson attended a town hall meeting held by Senator Ron Wyden. Jerry was chosen as one of the people allowed to submit a question, and he brought up issues that the aggregate industry was having with MSHA.

On January 28, Jerry, Andrew Siegmund, and Dan Kaufmann. along with Kim Redding of N Compliance, attended a meeting with Juine Chada, a Field Representative for Senator Wyden's office to go over the issues. You can email Ms. Chada with your information and experiences at this email address: Juine_Chada@wyden.senate.gov, or call her at 541-431-0229.


On Wednesday, February 3, 2009, Jessica Adamson, the Business Liaison for Senator Jeff Merkley's office, came to the OIAA meeting as a guest. Jessica gathered information from our board members, and is going to report back to Senator Merkley bringing our issues with MSHA into focus. Jessica's email is: Jessica_Adamson@merkley.senate.gov, and her phone number is 503-326-3386.


Link to Jim Sharpe's column in Rock Products magazine:
http://rockproducts.com/safety/rock_congress_msha_0110/


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