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Office ergonomics: Get off your rump once in a while

October 14, 2005

Sixty percent of workers report being planted in their chairs for more than six hours a day

Worker killed at stone company that OSHA fined last year

October 7, 2005

Lack of training, supervision may have played a role in immigrant worker being crushed by slabs of granite

Thousands of fatalities prevented by record seat belt usage

October 7, 2005

With 82 percent of Americans buckling up, Transportation Secretary Mineta says 15,700 fatalities, 350,000 serious injuries are avoided each year

OSHA forms alliance with material handling industry

October 7, 2005

Agency will work with three key organizations to prevent amputations and exposure to ergo-related hazards

Excavating company faces criminal charges in trench collapse

October 7, 2005

Pennsylvania firm cited for "egregiously willful" safety violations at work site

Harwood training grants include $5 million for Gulf Coast recovery

October 7, 2005

Workers engaged in disaster response will receive critical health and safety training

Contractor fined $108,500 for deadly trenching accident

October 7, 2005

Walls of a 33-foot deep trench collapsed at Texas construction company's work site

Penalty for tragic trench cave-in: $27,000

September 30, 2005

Fine is the amount OSHA can levy against plumbing company for lapses in workplace safety, area director says

OSHA's Top 10 violations

September 30, 2005

No major surprises in '05; scaffolding and hazcom top the list of most-cited standards

Union argues record OSHA fine "less than half day's profit"

September 30, 2005

$21 million "wonâ€™t act as a deterrent" for BP, which had set aside $700 million to pay settlement costs for refinery blast

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