OSHA News

Moments before another train traveling backward slammed into the front of his vehicle and killed him, Walt Disney World monorail pilot Austin Wuennenberg apparently attempted to avoid the collision by throwing his train into reverse, according to the federal agency investigating the crash.

A company faces more than $14,000 in fines after a fatal accident earlier this year at a power plant construction site.

The federal government is fining Sunoco more than $200,000 for multiple health and safety violations at the Marcus Hook Refinery.

Boston police arrested a West Roxbury man yesterday on a charge of robbing a blind man at a bank ATM last month.

As part of the National Emphasis Program, OSHA initiated an investigation focused on petroleum refinery safety management, and as a result, Sunoco Inc.

MIOSHA cited the company just two months ago for what it deemed 'serious violations' related to trenching and excavation.

The illusion that millions of visitors happily buy into each day at Disney World - that anything untoward or unpleasant gets checked at the gate - tragically came undone early Sunday morning when two of its monorail trains crashed, killing an operator and terrifying several passengers.

Vaughn Hayes loved working with cars, using skills he had learned from his father.

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration will not investigate the collapsed midtown Atlanta parking deck.

An assistant with the fireworks company running Quakertown's Fourth of July display was killed after he was hit by wooden debris from an explosion, said county officials.

An upstate recycling company faces possible fines for failing to correct hazards cited during an earlier federal safety inspection.

Vallee, vice president, Chubb & Son, and executive research and development specialist for Chubb's loss control unit, led a seminar, "Can You Hear Me Now? Articulating Noise Assessments and Hearing Loss," at Safety 2009, this year's American Society of Safety Engineers conference.

An employee was killed July 1 at General Dynamics Electric Boat's Quonset Point, R.I., shipyard after he was crushed between a huge door and a transporter used to move large sections of submarines.

Monday's five-alarm fire isn't the first time the Patrick Cudahy plant has had a major industrial accident.

When the fireworks lit up over Quakertown's Memorial Park on the Fourth of July, most assumed the display's finale had come.

Piloting monorail trains at Walt Disney World had been Austin Wuennenberg's dream job.

Hands On OSHA Training Thu, Jul 02, 2009. 12:43 PM Students taking Occupational Safety and Health Administration training at the Muskingum Career and Technology Center were able to learn first hand what to do in a fire.

On June 25, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in cooperation with DEWALT Industrial Tool Company , based in Towson, Md., issued a voluntary safety recall notice of the DEWALT D51825 and D51850 Framing Nailer tools.

Aker Construction Inc., part of Aker Solutions, has earned Star membership in the prestigious Voluntary Protection Programs of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

State inspectors are citing a northern Indiana lumber recycling plant with safety violations in the death of a worker.