A suburban Detroit manufacturing facility has been fined after the death of an employee who fell into vat of sulfuric acid. The Detroit News reports the $32,500 fine was issued by the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which completed …
A state agency says 43 people were killed on the job in Michigan last year, and that’s the state’s highest number of workplace fatalities in a decade. The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration says about half of last year’s …
The state says a packaging company in suburban Detroit is being fined nearly $250,000 for alleged worker safety violations. The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the fines for AJM Packaging’s plant in Southgate. MIOSHA’s General Industry Safety and …
Michigan’s state worker safety agency didn’t issue fines in the majority of asbestos abatement cases where it found serious violations during the past seven years, and not one company was fined the maximum $7,000, a newspaper reports. Fines weren’t issued …
A state office is making hundreds of recommendations to eliminate Michigan workplace safety regulations that exceed federal standards. The report released by the Office of Regulatory Reinvention aims to eliminate what the agency says are duplicative or unnecessarily burdensome rules. …
