January 10, 2024
Northridge Construction Corp. pleaded guilty to criminal charges last week in federal court in Central Islip, New York, according to federal officials. The three-count information alleges that, in 2018, during the construction of a shed on Northridge’s headquarters property in …
January 9, 2024
Twice within a month, an Illinois roofing contractor — cited previously more than 20 times for violating federal workplace safety regulations — was again found exposing employees to falls as they did residential framing work on houses under construction in …
January 3, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement to resolve litigation following a March 2022 investigation at a work site in Wheeling that resulted in a dozen citations issued against an Ohio-based contractor with an extensive history of …
December 28, 2023
An Ohio industrial rubber hose manufacturer with a long history of federal workplace safety issues could have prevented a 25-year-old worker from suffering severe crushing injuries by following required safety measures, the U.S. Department of Labor has determined. Investigators with …
December 18, 2023
Despite signing a 2021 settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor that included a promise to protect its employees from potentially deadly trenching and excavation hazards, a Minnesota construction contractor was again found endangering employees in June 2023 as …
December 15, 2023
Federal workplace safety inspectors found a Palatine, Illinois contractor did not provide roofing employees with required fall protection, exposing them to the risk of falls from elevation, the construction industry’s leading cause of workplace deaths, the Occupational Safety and Health …
December 11, 2023
A federal investigation into how a 35-year-old worker suffered severe leg burns, degloving of their foot and other injuries after falling into corrosive chemicals in May 2023 has found that an Ohio meat processing plant’s safety failures exposed employees to …
December 8, 2023
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One of the largest labor organizations in the United States petitioned the federal government on Thursday to wrest workplace safety oversight from South Carolina regulators accused of failing to protect service employees. South Carolina is one …
December 5, 2023
A New Hampshire contractor has been accused of lying and being evasive in an attempt to avoid responsibility for safety hazards for roofers at his worksite. A federal administrative law judge has determined that Barry Billcliff, doing business as Merrimack …
December 1, 2023
A federal grand jury has indicted Richard Zagger, of Blue Point, New York, charging him with conspiracy and obstruction of an investigation into a fatal construction accident, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The four-count indictment alleges that Zagger …