An instrument fitter who found himself out of a job after complaining about an unsafe crane lift will receive back wages and protection against more retaliation, in a settlement between the U.S. Department of Labor, his former employer and the general contractor who insisted on his firing.
OSHA has issued SPA Pipe and Supply LP in Abilene, doing business as Smith Pipe, 20 serious and two other-than-serious citations after an inspection at the company's facility on Highway 277.
Employees of Roytex, Inc. were exposed to electrical hazards, flaking lead paint and asbestos and other hazards, according to OSHA, which issued 18 serious safety and health violations to the Meridian, MS textile company. Proposed fines total $46,340.
Special impact inspections at more than a dozen mines last month found “persistently bad behavior” among some mine operators, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), which conducted the inspections.
The third OSHA visit was anything but a charm for Drive Power, Inc. of Newnam, GA. After being cited for health and safety violations during two previous visits, the company has earned proposed penalties totaling $79,350 as a result of its most recent inspection, in September of 2010.
Failure to follow industry codes likely caused an accident at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Houston, Texas that killed one worker and exposed five others to ammonia, according to a report released today by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB).
Interactive safety training programs may be more expensive, but when the jobs in question are especially dangerous, they are far more effective than other forms of training, according to a study published in this month’s Journal of Applied Psychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association.
Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes – and seven million of them don’t know it yet, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In addition, an estimated 79 million U.S. adults have prediabetes, a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.
An employee of Spray Polyurethane Foam fell almost 30 feet to his death at the company’s El Paso worksite, through a roof that wasn’t strong enough to hold him, according to an OSHA investigation.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced a partnership with the National Institutes of Health, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. and the Jacobs Project Management Co. to promote workplace safety and health, and to provide guidance and training for workers involved in the expansion of the Porter Neuroscience Research Center in Bethesda.
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