Employees for the security employees at work say that their agency will lead to avoidable deaths

More than 100 current and former employees of a federal authority, which was commissioned to ensure security at the workplace, warns that American workers are at a higher risk of deaths and injuries at work, since the Trump administration has the ranks of the organization.

In a letter to the Congress, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health says that the agency's mission has been at risk due to the administrative measures in recent months.

“Without us, more workers will suffer avoidable deaths, illnesses and injuries,” wrote the current and former Niosh employees in the letter that was received exclusively by NBC messages before the congress members of the congress.

The letter is sent to the entire congress, but is aimed at Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La., Chair of the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and his ranking member, Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT.

Niosh is part of the centers for the control and prevention of diseases in the Department of Health and Human Services.

The agency's cuts are part of Trump's vow to reduce the bureaucracy and to contain its interference into private business.

The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to the inquiries from NBC News for comments.

The letter calls on the congress to act to save the organization, especially at a time when the administration calls for increased economic activity, including domestic production and mining.

It is said that over 90% of the Niosh employees have received “reduction in force” in which they were put on administrative leave until more permanent layoffs.

The Congress founded Niosh in 1970 as part of the Law on the Vocational Security and Health Act, “in order to insure every working man and every worker in the nation as far as possible and to maintain our human resources safely and healthy.”

While the policy industries of the US occupational safety administration (OSHA) are involved in employee infringement, Niosh has the task of creating a vision for safer jobs by carrying out research work, maintaining databases, certifying the equipment at work and working with jobs into jobs for preventive training and other measures.

Niosh supervises the health program for 9/11 response and survivors.

Michael O'Connell, who assisted the early career in search and rescue operations after September 11, was diagnosed with a rare inflammatory disease called sarcoidosis, causing weakening pain. He says he managed his symptoms with the help of the World Trade Center Health program from Niosh.

“It is bureaucratic cruelty,” he said last month and addressed the cuts to the agency. “You try to save money that is okay, but don't do it on the back of the 9/11 community.”

If the plans are carried out to reduce the strength, the letter to the congress says: “Almost all functions of Niosch are ended permanently.”

The document was signed by experienced scientists in the field of security at the workplace, including Micah Niemeier-Walsh, a researcher on the effects of exposure to lithium-ion battles. Gary Roth, an expert in the tiny scale of nanotechnology and how it can avoid traditional protection of people and at the workplace; And the epidemiologist Scott Laney from the coal recording program for health forces, who said that the cuts had already led to the X -rays of coal seminas for black lungs.

“Niosh is threatened for an impending destruction,” explains the letter to the congress. “The activities of the administration in recent months have almost completely hindered Niosh's ability to carry out its mission.”

Some programs within NIOSH will change to a newly created agency, which is known as an administration for a healthy America, said Niosh director John Howard in an agency last month, but it is unclear what will be left after the transition.

The signatories have hope for the congress measures to save the agency.

“Please send the Trump administration a message that today's Congress of America is still supporting workers by restoring and protecting Niosh in its entirety and keeping it within the CDC,” says the letter.