Ms. Tammy Miser

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  Published on: 4/29/2009    Last Visited: 5/12/2009  

  "It is like homicide," said Tammy Miser of
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  Miser testified that families want better information related to federal, state or local investigations into the accidents that killed their loved ones; stiffer penalties for serious violations found by OSHA (she and other witnesses said that the average OSHA fine is about $900); and an advisory committee appointed by the Secretary of Labor that would solicit recommendations from families on preventing workplace accidents.
  
  Frustration with the investigation process after her brother's death led Miser to start a volunteer organization, United Support & Memorial for Workplace Fatalities, that helps families cope with the loss of a relative on the job and tries to help improve worker safety and health. In 2008, the Public Welfare Foundation gave USMWF a two-year grant of $162,000 that will allow Miser to become the full-time executive director of a sustainable grassroots organization.
  
  Appearances by Miser and others before Senate and House committees confirm the increasingly important role of family member advocacy to help ensure worker health and safety, as noted in the Pump Handle blog maintained by another Foundation grantee, the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and in a Las Vegas Sun article by Alexandra Berzon, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner for a series on deaths of construction workers.

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  Tammy Miser, founder and president of United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities, talks with relatives whose loved ones were killed for job related accidents."> Tammy Miser, founder and president of United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities, talks with relatives whose loved ones were killed for job related accidents.
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  Tammy Miser speaks out for families who lost a loved one
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  Tammy Miser was giving advice to Bethlehem Steel retirees and their family members about how to press their case for compensation for the workers' health problems.
  
  Make sure your story is getting out to the public, she told them. "Who is going to get up and say this isn't right for you all once it's out there in public? Miser said Tuesday at the Hearthstone Manor in Depew.
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  That incident sent Miser trying to locate any information and resources available to family members who lost loved ones in such industrial accidents.
  
  "I had to search for every little thing I found," she said.
  
  All of that research eventually led her to create the United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities, creating a place for families seeking support after such accidents. The group maintains a Web site, www.usmwf.org . Miser came to town as a guest of the Buffalo AFLCIO and Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health. Miser said her goal is to give the families of workplace accident victims more of a voice in the wake of the incidents. "People are starting to notice that the families are going to get involved and they aren't sitting still," she said.
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  Miser has testified in Washington and appeared last June in a "60 Minutes" piece on the hazards of industrial dust, the type of explosion that led to her brother's death.
  
  With the change in administrations, it appears more likely that OSHA will embrace tougher standards on combustible dust in the workplace. "I'm really optimistic about it," she said.
  
  Miser remains a tough critic of OSHA's performance, but she said the agency faces limitations. "They haven't had the funding, they need more people," she said.
  
  Miser spent part of her visit talking to retirees and family members of Bethlehem Steel workers from the Cold War-era. They are seeking changes to the compensation program for nuclear workers at former atomic weapons production facilities.
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  Miser said she sees her organization as a way to help families touched by workplace deaths, by connecting with others who can relate to their experiences as well as to access information that she believes is crucial in the healing process.
  
  "The biggest thing we hear is, 'nobody's listening to me,' " Miser said.

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  Published on: 11/8/2009    Last Visited: 11/8/2009  

  If you would like a speakers plaease contact Tammy Miser Please view our speaker agreemant here.
  
  Tammy Miser
  
  Using her darkest hours to help others; Tammy has shared her experience as a family-member victim who, like thousands of others across the U.S., suffers profoundly because of our nation's inadequate regulatory system and its failure to protect workers' fundamental right to a place of employment without death, injury or disease.

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  I just wanted to express my gratitude to you for recognizing the efforts of Tammy Miser (Weekly Toll) As one of your 2008 honorees. Tammy's hard work and dedication often leave me in a state of amazement. She has taught me that not only can a single person make a difference in the world. But that there is no limit to how much of a difference a single person can make. Working along side her is an honor, Being able to call her a friend is a blessing. And the wealth of knowledge she passes on through both her website ( usmwf.org) & her weekly Toll blog Is something I for one could not do without.

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  Published on: 1/6/2010    Last Visited: 1/6/2010  

  Tammy Miser, president of the family support group and a Lexington, Ky., resident, lost her 33-year-old brother Shawn to a dust explosion in an Indiana factory in 2003.
  
  Miser puts the number of people on her contact list at about 300, although she acknowledged that any number she might offer has its ups and downs - as do the people who have sought her out.
  
  "Some of them lose their trust in anybody and everybody," she said, "and they don't know who to talk to."

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  Published on: 12/1/2007    Last Visited: 12/1/2007  

  "No one can bring back those we've lost, but if we can help other family members in similar situations, it makes our pain a little less," said Tammy Miser of Lexington, Ky., who lost her brother, Shawn Boone, 33, in an explosion at the Hayes Lemmerz plant in Huntington, Ind., in October 2003.
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  Miser founded United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities (USMWF) after her brother's death, and the organization's members drafted the bill.

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  Around the same time, Tammy Miser, founder of United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities (USMWF) posted an on-line petition called "Justice for Chad."
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  God bless Ken, Davitt, Tammy and Celeste for keeping this on the front burner.

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  CBS's correspondent Scott Pelley interviews Carolyn Merritt (former Member of the US Chemical Safety Board), Tammy Miser (whose brother Shawn was killed in an aluminum dust explosion), Edwin Foulke (OSHA Asst. Secretary), and at least one EXPERIENCED but UNDISCLOSED speaker.
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  Despite the excellent presentations by USMWF's Tammy Miser, the Chemical Safety Board's William Wright and NFPA's Amy Spencer, the image that remains in my head from last week's congressional hearing on combustible dust was Ranking Member Howard "Buck" McKeon's performance.

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  Published on: 4/18/2006    Last Visited: 5/25/2007  

  Tammy Miser
  
  USMWF Co-Founder

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