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Video Interview: Central Iowa Farmer Says Need For Work Safety Has To Meet Farmers' Needs

Chris Petersen, of Clear Lake, Iowa, has farmed and raised hogs for years. As a board member of the Iowa Farmers’ Union and Iowa’s Center for Agricultural Safety and

By Lauren Mills

/ 20 Nov 2013

Video Interview: Central Iowa Farmer Says Need For Work Safety Has To Meet Farmers' Needs

Farm Safety Trainers: Consistent Advice For Preventing Grain Bin Fatalities Is Lacking

Grain bins, a common sight for anyone traveling through Iowa and other corn belt states, are a source of concern for agriculture safety specialists. Lack of research means specialists are unable to provide consistent advice to farmers about working in the storage bins.

By Lauren Mills

/ 19 Nov 2013

Farm Safety Trainers: Consistent Advice For Preventing Grain Bin Fatalities Is Lacking

Matter Of Seconds: Getting Safety Information To The Fields

Video report: Farm safety expert in Iowa hopes to reach more farmers by traveling to fields and events with a large trailer packed with safety equipment. The trailer will give farmers a chance to see the equipment for themselves and learn best practices.

By Lauren Mills

/ 13 Nov 2013

Matter Of Seconds: Getting Safety Information To The Fields

CIR Report: Overtime, New Computer System Putting Sizable Dent In VA Benefits Backlog

Far fewer veterans are facing long waits for disability compensation after the Department of Veterans Affairs spent the past six months focusing on the backlog, including mandating case worker overtime

By Aaron Glantz/Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 12 Nov 2013

CIR Report: Overtime, New Computer System Putting Sizable Dent In VA Benefits Backlog

Reporter Katie Kuntz: Help Us Finish The Documentary "Breaking The Cycle"

Over the past year, Katie Kuntz, a reporter working with the nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization IowaWatch, has been developing a documentary focusing on the lives of two Iowa mothers who

By IowaWatch

/ 8 Nov 2013

Reporter Katie Kuntz: Help Us Finish The Documentary "Breaking The Cycle"

Matter of Seconds: Tougher Farm Safety Regulation Hard To Come By In Iowa

Limited Occupational Safety and Health Administration enforcement and coverage favors large farms, leaving the rest on an honors system in which dangerous farm practices fly under the radar until a serious, and often fatal, injury occurs.

By Sarah Hadley

/ 3 Nov 2013

Matter of Seconds: Tougher Farm Safety Regulation Hard To Come By In Iowa

Matter of Seconds: As Deaths Add Up, Farmers 'Walk The Grain' Unprotected

There have been more than 900 grain-bin entrapments throughout the country since 1964, according to data compiled by Purdue University’s Agricultural Safety and Health Program. More than half of those incidents were fatal.

By Robert Holly/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 3 Nov 2013

Matter of Seconds: As Deaths Add Up, Farmers 'Walk The Grain' Unprotected

Matter Of Seconds: OSHA Educates More Than It Enforces

OSHA’s federal guidelines prohibit it from enforcing regulations through inspections on both family farms and farms that employ fewer than 10 workers. Consequently, many places left vulnerable to grain-bin accidents are neglected.

By Robert Holly/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 3 Nov 2013

Matter Of Seconds: OSHA Educates More Than It Enforces

Database: Iowa Farm Fatalities

Farm deaths accounted for more than 30 percent of all occupational fatalities in Iowa between 2001 and 2011, an IowaWatch analysis of data from the Iowa Fatality Assessment and Control

By Lauren Mills

/ 3 Nov 2013

Donate To An IowaWatch Documentary Through Kickstarter

What started as a spring University of Iowa journalism school assignment has blossomed into a powerful story, told in personal detail through the lives of two Iowa mothers struggling with

By IowaWatch

/ 29 Oct 2013

Donate To An IowaWatch Documentary Through Kickstarter

IowaWatch Annual Report, Tax Reports Updated at GuideStar

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism has updated its financial and operational information at GuideStar.org/. GuideStar makes available online information about each IRS-registered nonprofit organization so that

By IowaWatch

/ 24 Oct 2013

IowaWatch Annual Report, Tax Reports Updated at GuideStar

Special Report: Iowa's Opportunity Gap

This IowaWatch collaboration with four Iowa newspapers, published in fall 2013, is particularly pertinent during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday period. It tells you how and why gaps exist in home ownership, jobs and pay, education and crime exist among white, black and Latino Iowans.

By Investigate Midwest

/ 20 Oct 2013