Lincoln Fabrics Ltd., a Canadian weaver of ballistic fabrics, and its American subsidiary, have agreed to pay the United States $4 million to settle the United States’ lawsuit against Lincoln for violations of the False Claims Act in connection with their role in the weaving of Zylon fabric used in the manufacture and sale of defective Zylon bullet-proof vests, the Justice Department announced.
The former owner of a butter and buttermilk production facility in West Point, Neb., has agreed to pay $350,000 in civil penalties to the federal government and the State of Nebraska to settle allegations that the company violated the Clean Water Act by illegally discharging pollutants into the City of West Point's waste water treatment system resulting in illegal discharges to the Elkhorn River, according to a press release from the Environmental Protection Agency.
OSHA has cited Mariani & Richards Inc. for failing to protect workers from falls on a construction site following the investigation of a worker who fell 225 feet to his death, according to an agency press release.
If you usually wake up groggy and grumpy, you’re probably not getting enough sleep. Improving Sleep: A guide to a good night’s rest, a newly updated report from Harvard Medical School, explains how lack of sleep does more than make you bleary—it can put you at risk for heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and other health problems, according to a recent press release.
While only 32 percent of home heating fires involve space heaters, they are involved in 79 percent of home heating fire deaths, according to the new report Home Fires Involving Heating Equipment
released February 11th by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Heating equipment continues to be the second leading cause of home fires behind cooking and the second leading cause of home fire deaths behind smoking.
The seventh annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report, released by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), found 20 states scored six or less out of 10 key indicators of public health emergency preparedness.
During 2004-2007, an average of 33.5 million injuries were reported each year, according to the National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2004--2007.
Implementing occupational health and safety (OHS) measures might be the right thing to do, but stakeholders are also a significant motivating factor, according to a press release reporting on Kathy Seabrook’s CSP, CMIOSH (UK) recent East Carolina University webinar to a graduate-level Applied Safety Management class.
OSHA has ordered the Illinois Central Railroad Co. and the Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad, both headquartered in Homewood, Ill., to pay a former railroad employee more than $80,000 in back wages, compensatory damages and attorney's fees, according to a recent press release.
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