{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Safety Wars","title":"Safety Wars, 10-14-2026, OSHA, EPA, and the Stories Behind the Citations","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2295,"description":"Jim hosts from a hotel lobby, covering the day's safety and regulatory news. He opens with his standard disclaimer about OSHA/EPA citations and presumption of innocence, then dives into political commentary on the upcoming elections and the cycle of unfulfilled promises.\n\nFeature Story News covers Pope Leo's lung cancer surgery, US inflation at 3.7%, Taiwan's $4B Alaska LNG investment, Russian strikes on Ukraine, and Saudi-Houthi conflict escalation.\n\nJim follows up on the Christopher Boone Crimmins boom-truck manslaughter case, sharing field stories about equipment training and respirator fit-testing gone wrong. He covers a fatal crushing at McWane Ductile in Phillipsburg, NJ, where a delayed 911 call may have cost a worker's life, and a deported unruly airline passenger.\n\nOn the regulatory front: OSHA cited six NY/NJ contractors $648K for excavation violations at Monroe Commons; EPA Administrator Zeldin announced the \"American Farmer First\" policy in Iowa; and OSHA formalized a new SIF Prevention Alliance with AIHA, ASSP, NSC, and UC Boulder.\n\nClosing segments cover a great white shark off Huntington Beach, Space Force electromagnetic warfare operations, US banks de-banking customers over political views, and an OpenAI bugging suspect fleeing to Saudi Arabia. Jim signs off, promising to return tomorrow.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GCeGVK4TJtEsDlitxdacoNZoDfYg4RiJjNa3U3W-GJs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNTA2/Njk0YmIwYmUwMjU5/N2FiMGU2ZjY4YTNi/ZDczOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}