Federal workplace safety officials said this week that they are again citing a Mississippi electrical and lighting maker for for unsafe practices. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration accused Laurel-based Howard Industries of eight rules violations, which could carry …
A suburban St. Louis, Mo., company could face nearly $200,000 in fines after the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited 37 health and safety violations in an investigation that began after a fatal accident. A worker at Resource Management …
In separate actions federal workplace regulators have cited two Texas-based companies for employee safety violations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Congress Materials LLC in Euless, Texas, for one other-than-serious and 12 serious safety …
Each year, people are killed and maimed by explosions of finely powdered wood, metal or chemicals at factories around the country. Safety experts have studied the threat posed by dust at industrial sites for nearly a decade, yet tighter regulations …
An assessment rate of direct earned premium is necessary for the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services to carry out its statutory responsibility to regulate, administer, and enforce the workers’ compensation and occupational safety and health laws of the …
SeaWorld Orlando is fighting $75,000 in penalties from a federal job safety agency following last year’s death of a trainer who was grabbed by a killer whale and dragged under water. A hearing was held for yesterday before an administrative …
Twenty years after the worst industrial accident in North Carolina history, there are signs that progress in worker safety made after the deaths of 25 people in a chicken plant fire is beginning to wane. The Charlotte Observer reported Sunday …
Federal safety regulators say a piece of machinery that killed a Yale University student lacked required safeguards. Michele Dufault, a senior, was killed April 12 when her hair was pulled into a fast-spinning lathe as she worked alone in a …
As the Indiana State Fair reopened after a deadly collapse of a concert stage, questions lingered about the structure’s safety, why fans weren’t evacuated as a storm moved in and whether anything could have been done to prevent the tragedy. …
Federal workplace safety officials have ordered the Metro-North Commuter Railroad to pay $125,000 in punitive damages to a worker who was injured on the job in Connecticut. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration also told Metro-North to promote William Ordner …
