September 23, 2013
Taylor’s Drain and Sewer Service in Nebraska has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 10 safety violations, including two willful, and proposed penalties of $194,000. OSHA found that the company failed to …
July 26, 2013
Federal authorities are investigating safety procedures at a northern Colorado farm after nine workers were struck by lightning. Two of the workers in the organic fields in Wellington were critically injured when the lightning struck Thursday afternoon. The Fort Collins …
July 22, 2013
Federal authorities are questioning working conditions at a Georgia auto parts plant for the eighth time in four years, this time in connection with a worker’s death. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched an inquiry of Sewon American in …
July 15, 2013
Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the crack in the fermentation tank at Calhoun’s Bar-B-Q & Brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee. The space was oversaturated with oxygen. He …
July 11, 2013
A third company has been accused of safety violations in connection with efforts to clean up a natural gas liquids spill involving a pipeline near Parachute, Colo. Documents obtained Tuesday by the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel from the Occupational Safety …
June 5, 2013
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Lewiston, Idaho construction company for its role in a natural gas explosion in downtown Lewiston last November. The Lewiston Tribune reported OSHA cited M.L. Albright and Sons for failing to anticipate …
March 18, 2013
Federal regulators and safety officials should consider requiring more backup air supplies and work to develop better breathing devices that would help the nation’s coal miners escape underground emergencies, a panel of experts said in a new report. The report …
March 15, 2013
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it has issued 21 health and safety citations against a northern Ohio metal stamping company that produces automotive parts after a complaint that a worker’s finger was amputated by an unguarded press …
March 5, 2013
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Norfolk, Va.-based Norfolk Southern Corp. to pay more than $1 million to three workers who were fired after they reported on-the-job injuries. The order stems from investigations by OSHA that found the …
January 16, 2013
The federal agency operating Hoover Dam must correct 58 health and safety violations that investigators found in recent inspections at the massive Colorado River water retention and hydroelectric power plant east of Las Vegas. Inspectors for the federal Occupational Safety …