OSHA News Archives

Fall-related infractions are on track to dominate this yeara TMs 10 top violations by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administrationa 'a toll that has increased almost 30 percent over last year.

Apparently, the company claims that computers used intensively in rooms full of smoke become dangerous to repair workers and such systems will not be fixed.

While the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has just about wrapped up its investigation into a summer accident involving Universal Orlando 's Dueling Dragons roller coaster, separate probes into three summer incidents at Walt Disney World have yet to be resolved.

25, 2009 Contact: Brad Mitchell or Scott Allen Phone: 312-353-6976 US Labor Department's OSHA, Harold O'Shea Builders and state of Illinois partner to safely complete hospital project Agreement highlights training to combat risks to worker safety and health LINCOLN, Ill.

Authorities have released the names of the men killed Friday in an apparent flash fire inside the tank of a tugboat they were working on at V. T. Halter Marine in Moss Point.

The acting head of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration hails from a union background, which is rare for a top official at the agency.

Meetings on ways to reduce hazards like those that helped cause last yeara s Imperial Sugar Co.

Isolated reports of Apple customers denied warranty repairs due to being smokers.

The adult industry recently won a victory in court against the California division of OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Preventive Medicine Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST For the protection of frontline health care and emergency medical workers at high risk of infection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a compliance directive to ensure uniform procedures when ...

Following the 2007 death of a worker and millions of dollars in fines for workplace safety violations, Cintas Corp.

Apple just laid down the gauntlet with smokers announcing that it won't honor the warranty on a product that's been exposed to smoke.

MACON, Ga. -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $128,560 in penalties against Nichiha USA Inc.'s Macon plant for 27 safety and health violations.

A Wilkes County horse bedding manufacturer will contest the violations and $41,700 in penalties levied by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration last week.

DESOTO PARISH, LA The federal agency that oversees employee safety has opened an investigation into the deadly gas well blowout in DeSoto Parish.

David L. Ostendorf is executive director of the Chicago-based Center for New Community, a national organization dedicated to building community, justice and equality nationwide.

In their lawsuit against the state's guns-in-bars law, restaurant owners tossed a clusterfluff of weird arguments at Davidson County Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman.

It certainly is not everything about which labour shouts that the business community will listen to or concur with.

After years of stirring up customers to flock into stores on the day after Thanksgiving, retailers and the government this year are working on ways to calm the Black Friday crowds while keeping the buying as feverish as ever.

The Applecare warranties offered with Apple's equipment appears to be invalidated should your laptop come in contact with cigarette smoke.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday, November 20, issued a compliance directive to ensure uniform inspection procedures to identify and minimize or eliminate high- to very high-risk occupational exposures to H1N1 flu among frontline health care and emergency medical workers.

Gabe Koenigsfeld of Sioux Falls died Tuesday at a construction site in Dakota Dunes.

Universal Orlando has been fined $3,750 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as a result of the injury of an employee over the summer.

A 17-year-old worker at a Kiowa County grain elevator was killed Friday after being buried alive in a grain bin.

US based Apple customers face having AppleCare warranties made void due to the "health risks of second hand smoke" according to a report.

MN OSHA to investigate Rosemount ammonia leak Eds: UPDATES with fire chief's comments.

An early morning accident today at Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC on Southern Avenue has resulted in the death of an employee.

Cintas Corp. and the widow of a former employee who is suing the company will have another chance to settle her 2007 wrongful death lawsuit against the nation's largest uniform supplier.

The Toronto Star November 20, 2009 Friday GTA; Pg. GT01 570 words Hotel room cleaners suffering on the job; Study finds high rate of injury among staff of mostly immigrants Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star Filomena Canedo has been a hotel housekeeper in Toronto for 17 years, changing sheets, lifting heavy mattresses, vacuuming carpets, pushing carts of ...

WASHINGTON a ' The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has received the Government Accountability Office's report on the under-reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses and OSHA's audit process.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration area office in Bismarck, N.D., says it will investigate a death at a construction site in southeastern South Dakota.

A Rosemount fertilizer plant remained shut down Wednesday while investigators probed an industrial accident that killed an Oklahoma truck driver and critically injured another as they loaded anhydrous ammonia on Monday.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers are being told by the government to take greater precautions with their Black Friday shopping events to avoid a repeat of last year, when a worker was trampled by customers.

A group at Robins Air Force Base gets some positive attention from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

An oil rig accident involving a crane has killed two Vici men who worked for an Oklahoma City-based company.

Molex Incorporated announces its safety program training series, "Working Together for a Safer Workplace", that aims at educating electrical and safety engineers, electricians and maintenance personal and electrical contractors to common electrical safety hazards, as well as providing a safety audit of the worksite and safety information from the ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited P. Gioioso & Sons Inc.

Posting loss : The Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the 2009 fiscal year, about $1 billion more than the previous year.

Congressional investigators say the agency in charge of workplace safety needs to do a better job of making sure employers keep accurate records on worker injuries and illnesses.

NEWARK -- Few people would want to scrub dried blood off mattresses and walls after a homicide, but it's just another day at the office for Ron Lillibridge.

One worker was killed and another worker was injured Tuesday afternoon in a crane accident at the construction site of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City police said.

The Silver Eagle Refinery is temporarily shutting down because of findings by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board after the Nov.

Every day, 16 workers go to work and don't come home. They are killed on the job.

AK Steel Corp. has received two serious citations and was fined more than $7,000 by OSHA in connection with an incident where a worker was severely burned when he fell into a pit of hot water at Middletown Works.

Citing "willful, repeat and serious violations" of workplace safety and health regulations, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines totaling $509,000 against the Scotia Bag Plant of Cranesville Aggregate Co.

A longtime employee of the Guardian Fiberglass insulation plant near Inwood died Thursday morning after an industrial accident.

Police say a 35-year-old Lee's Summit man is dead and a 30-year-old man from Grain Valley was critically injured after they fell about 100 feet at a downtown construction site.

IWS Documented News Service _______________________________ Institute for Workplace Studies ----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach School of Industrial & Labor Relations -------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell University 16 East 34th Street, 4th floor ---------------------- Stuart Basefsky New York, NY 10016 ...

A Wednesday afternoon industrial accident left a 53-year-old Indianapolis man dead.

The worker killed Tuesday at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts construction site has been identified as Ryan Goodman, 35, of Lees Summit.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it will fine Loren Cook Co.

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.

With encouragement from labor unions and members of Congress, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration last week took the first step to formally regulate combustible dust by publishing an "advanced notice of proposed rulemaking." The need for a comprehensive national regulation for combustible and explosive dust has been growing for years.

Texas City's mayor, Matt Doyle, lashed out at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for its $87 million fine against BP's Texas City refinery, calling the federal government's actions "one of the biggest affronts to the working men and women of this country." On Friday, OSHA proposed the fine - the largest ever for the agency - for a ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $45,000 in fines against Veolia ES Technical Solutions in West Carrollton, alleging 11 serious violations of federal workplace health and safety standards.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating a fatal construction accident in Plum.