Who's covered by federal safety laws?

THE DALLES — Matt Fox told his supervisors that if no changes were made, one night an employee carrying buckets of fish across an unfinished bridge and down a steep, scree-covered trail leading down to Fifteenmile Creek would fall and be injured.

The fish biologist argued with supervisors that the work site on a Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs project was risky at dusk. After they changed policies and asked employees to walk the trail carrying 50-pound buckets filled with fish later at night, Fox said, an injury was almost certainly on the horizon.

And then, within weeks of raising the safety concerns with supervisors, walking one night along the trail beneath Interstate 84 leading to the creek, Fox slipped.

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