HEAT ILLNESS CAN BE DEADLY. Every year, thousands of workers become sick from exposure to heat, and some even die. These illnesses and deaths are preventable.
Texting and driving is a serious hazard. Take a look at this map of the US that shows what states have texting bans.
On a clear June afternoon, a tractor-trailer truck crested a small rise on a stretch of interstate highway in Oklahoma. Plainly visible in the distance were more than a dozen cars and trucks that had stopped while a fender-bender was being cleared.
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Company executives and Safety Manager charged in a 2008 worker death.
Sep. 19--State safety investigators ordered two city employees out of a 14-foot deep trench with no shoring Thursday afternoon and shut down the job for safety reasons.
This case illustrates in stark terms that failure to follow required procedures can have wide-ranging and catastrophic consequences," Edwin G. Foulke Jr., the assistant secretary of labor for OSHA, said in a statement.
OSHA cited Overhead Door Corp.'s Athens plant. It said that in recent inspections it found machines operating without proper guards and a lack of switches that keep machinery from being turn on by accident.
A thirty-seven-year old construction worker of Fargo died after falling 43 feet down an elevator. The proposed fines total more than $22,000.
After one Cintas employee died in a gruesome incident in March of 2007, the company still has a long way to go to improve overall worker safety.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Midwest Petroleum and Excavating Inc. in Benton for alleged willful and serious violations of federal workplace safety standards.
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) recently released a new draft of an ergonomics standard that faces an uncertain ride through the legislative process.
Three deck truss bridges in Alabama have had another round of inspections because they are similar to the Interstate 35 bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis last summer.
The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined Pike Electric for violations found at a site in Mobile, Alabama after an employee was injured in a serious trench collapse.
Workplace safety has hardly been a major topic on the campaign trail or at the recent Democratic and Republican national conventions. But some prominent worker advocates think the issue could appeal to workers and help draw distinctions between the presidential candidates.
A supplier to Montgomery's Hyundai plant is facing $94,500 in fines for 11 federal safety violations, including one that resulted in an employee losing parts of two fingers.
A.M. Stern Inc. was cited for five alleged repeat violations of safety standards following an OSHA inspection on June 24 when an inspector observed employees working without fall protection while performing roofing work atop Ontario Hall.
Public works employees who handled contaminated material from a Riverdale Avenue lot may have contracted medical problems from the exposure.
Two Dallas city employees were hospitalized Thursday after a 100-ton crane toppled onto a pump station just north of the Trinity River in West Dallas. It was the third crane accident in the Dallas area within the past few months.
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy has released a white paper calling for stronger criminal penalties for those violating OSHA regulations.
With triple-digit heat consuming much of California this week, Cal/OSHA investigators are targeting Fresno, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Napa, Sonoma, Yolo, Santa Clara counties for heat illness prevention inspections of outdoor workplaces.
The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration has joined in the investigation of an accident that killed a construction worker Monday after he was trapped under a dump truck
Henderson city officials and Nevada OSHA are investigating a construction site accident that left two workers seriously hurt.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $138, 500 in penalties for a Cullman-based company for 31 safety and health violations.
Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion killed 13 people.
"I am outraged that this company would show a complete disregard for its employees' safety by knowingly placing them in an extremely dangerous work environment," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Edwin G. Foulke Jr.
John,
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