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Construction at Kansas Citys new performing arts center is on hold today while officials investigate an accident that killed one worker and injured another Tuesday.The workers were about 50 feet up in the air on a cherry picker-type lift when the vehicle tipped over about 1:45 p.m., throwing the men onto 16th Street just east of Broadway.Ambulances ...

NEW YORK The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $50,600 in fines against Metro Steel Fabricators Inc., a Brooklyn steel erection contractor, for alleged willful and serious violations of safety standards at a Tuckahoe jobsite.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued commonsense fact sheets that employers and workers can use to promote safety during the current H1N1 influenza outbreak.

What lessons can be learned from the death of Andy Palmer? US Forest Service photo.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing penalties against four Miami, Fla., companies for safety violations following a fatality at the Bernuth Marine Terminal.

When the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it was proposing $87 million in fines against BP's Texas City refinery, many worried the latest government action would force the company to shut down.

Home << Local << Man dies in accident at Lifeline Foods A contract employee died in an apparent industrial accident Thursday at Lifeline Foods, the chief executive officer of the food-processing company confirmed.

Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment by healthcare workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza.

The massive explosion in 2005 at BP's Texas City, Texas, refinery was caused by inadequacies in the pressure-relief system, which OSHA charges still exist.

The construction worker killed Wednesday in Farmington has been identified as Freddy Vasquez, 22, of Putnam Heights in Hartford.

Federal investigators expressed alarm over the extent of damages caused by a refinery that has had a history of trouble dating to 2003.

Four men suffered burns and chemical injuries when a flash fire sparked during the trial of a new wastewater measuring tool at a Bonita Springs Utilities plant on Thursday evening.

A New Bedford seafood plant, where a worker was crushed to death by an ice machine last spring, is facing nearly $67,000 in proposed fines after federal safety inspectors cited the company for 23 alleged violations of workplace safety standards.

St. James Parish sheriff's deputies say a worker wearing a safety harness died this week of injuries received in a 40-foot fall from scaffolding inside a storage tank under construction.

Four Glasgow residents were slightly injured Tuesday when a tractor-trailer collided with their vehicle and sent them into the median of the Louie B. Nunn Parkway in Glasgow.

Wednesday's explosion isn't the first problem at the Silver Eagle Refinery. Federal investigators eyes were already focused on the refinery.

A New Bedford seafood processing plant faces $66,800 in fines following a probe into the death of a worker who became caught in an industrial ice-making machine.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has partnered with several construction organizations to support a struck by accident "safety stand down" on Wednesday, Nov.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc.

Citing the fact that nearly 22 million American workers are exposed to hazardous noise on a daily basis and that occupational hearing loss continues to plague industry, the National Hearing Conservation Association has made a request to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to reduce the permissible exposure limit for noise exposures.