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An 80-page report released today by the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited a number of 'issues of great concern,' with Nevada's program. The review, commissioned after 25 construction workers were killed on the job in the year and a half prior to June 2009, uncovered state OSHA inspectors with inadequate knowledge of construction safety hazards, a lack of follow-up investigations, and a lack of citation issues for unsafe practices. The report calls for 'urgent' improvements in oversight and several changes to the program. National acting assistant OSHA secretary Jordan Barab said that, prompted by the findings in Nevada, OSHA plans to evaluate all state OSHA programs.