In a scene that is all too familiar to — and dreaded by — safety professionals, two workers who tried to rescue a colleague at a Montreal-area cosmetics factory died themselves from breathing large quantities of argon gas, The Canadian Press reports.
OSHA has fined a Brooklyn, N.Y., foundry $144,750 for a litany of safety and health violations, including unguarded machinery, inadequate hearing protection, lead overexposures and a steam explosion hazard.
Giant retailer Sears will adopt a safety and health program to ensure that all powered industrial trucks are operated in a safe manner, as part of a settlement agreement announced recently by OSHA.
A West Virginia company faces $117,500 in fines for failing to protect its workers from safety and health hazards from a job site in Cheshire, Ohio, according to OSHA.
The White House June 20 announced President Bush's intention to nominate William B. Wark and William E. Wright to serve five-year terms as board members of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB).
The former president of an Arizona-based water and sewer company was convicted earlier this month on four of five counts against him stemming from an October 2001 sewer accident that claimed the lives of two workers and injured a third, according to the Yuma Sun.
The House Appropriations Committee “marked up†the HHS fiscal year 2007 spending bill. OSHA would receive $486 million, as compared to $472 million last year.
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