OSHA News

WARREN - Voters will be given a chance to weigh in on three different scenarios for a new Police Department at a special Town Meeting on July 11, including buying and renovating 70 Pulaski St., leasing temporary trailers, or renovating a portion of the Shepard Municipal Building.

Investigations into deadly building collapses, structural failures, and other construction disasters are the focus on a new web page by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

A strobe light manufacturer based in Harwood Heights has been fined more than $50,000 for exposing workers to acid and lead without proper protection, the federal government announced Wednesday.

On Wednesday June 19, 2013 at approximately 10:15am, Deputies with the Howard County Sheriffs Office were dispatched to an Oil Rig off of RockHouse Road in Howard County in reference to an accident.

Traffic was backed up on Interstate 279 for most of the afternoon while investigators tried to determine what went wrong in a cherry picker a bridge inspector was operating.

The attorney for the family of the man who died at a Boynton Beach Publix distribution center says questions remain about exactly what happened.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch of the Department of Health of Canada.

Greenville, SC - - June 19, 2013 - - GreenWood, Inc., an integrated operations, maintenance and construction solutions provider, was recently presented the prestigious Lighthouse Beam Safety Award by BB&T Insurance Services.

Repainting of the north span of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, suspended June 6 following two unrelated accidents, will resume Wednesday.

Carson Helicopters Inc. , of Perkasie, has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for eight violations including exposing workers to hexavalent chromium, known to cause cancer, at the company's plant.

California would nearly triple the number of oil refinery safety inspectors under a proposal on the governor's desk that backers say would help close regulatory gaps that federal investigators found played a role in the fire at Chevron's Richmond refinery last year.

A record number of grain bin accidents has the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety Health Administration laying out new tools to educate farmers - coupled with increased inspections.

Federal investigators are at two chemical plants that were the sites of fatal explosions last week, and two people remain hospitalized.

NFIB's Dan Danner called one proposal for government workplace safety inspections a chance to launch union-organizing at companies.

The death of a male worker at the Publix distribution center in Boynton Beach is under investigation.

A federal agency's investigation into the death of a longtime Snowmass ski patroller in December has cleared the Aspen Skiing Co.

An Amish pallet factory has been cited for a dozen child labor violations involving seven different children.

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company announced today that its Roanoke, Virginia production facility has been recertified with Voluntary Protection Program Star Status by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration .

Staff at an Amazon warehouse in Wales process orders. Workers in some warehouses have to wait in security checkpoints for 25 minutes before they can leave, time for which they're not paid.

Investigators are still looking into what led to a fatal blast Friday at a chemical plant in Donaldsonville, which left one dead and seven others injured.