Business Notes Jan. 26
... Central Lakes College (CLC) Business & Industry Center is offering an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) construction class with Joe Casey, Casey Safety Consultants. Casey is...
View ArticleMd. Fines Contractor in Fatal Montgomery Mall Collapse
Maryland state investigators have issued fines and citations against the contractor involved in a deadly accident last year at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda.
View ArticleRecovery Crews Working in "Earthquake" Like Rubble in Omaha
... industrial plant collapse and fire in Omaha have been recovered. This is the scene around the plant Tuesday night where OSHA representative continue to look for a cause. So far they are not calling...
View ArticleBusiness news briefs: Rice Energy sells 44M shares
... citations against PPG and is proposing $69,000 in penalties. A PPG spokesman said the company is cooperating with OSHA and will review the citations. It has 15 days to respond. U.S. Steel named...
View ArticleVancouver construction worker killed at Medford VA center
A Vancouver, Wash., construction company says one of its supervisors has died at a Department of Veterans Affairs' work site in the southern Oregon community of White City.
View ArticleSPI revises extrusion, injection molding automation safety standards
... the standards were originally written. Felinski said that while the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was not directly involved in the development of either standard, both were...
View ArticleBlackstone: CEO ‘misspoke’ on SeaWorld...
... involved in two previous human deaths. What's more, an expert witness recruited by SeaWorld for its legal hearing with OSHA - a former company employee who has since been rehired as vice president...
View ArticleBig bang? Theory has it implosion will rock West Deptford
... concern on Facebook. "It will be conducted with proper permitting from and oversight by West Deptford Township, OSHA (the federal Occupational Safety and Health Organization) and the New Jersey...
View ArticleRegional Safety Manager
... Qualifications: : BS degree : 7+ years of progressive experience in Health and Safety Management : Strong knowledge of OSHA Compliance and Ergonomic methodology : CSP or ASP preferred. provides...
View ArticleCelebrity odds and ends
... the Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed Tuesday that they were looking into reports that OSHA inspector Lara Padgett, who helped investigate Brancheau's death, had fraternized...
View ArticleWorker dies at White City construction site
... Safety and Health Administration, which is investigating the incident. "We are currently working with Oregon OSHA, cooperating to determine the cause surrounding the accident," Ragan said. "We have...
View ArticleDEP demands more details on fatal Antero blast
West Virginia regulators on Thursday ordered Antero Resources to provide more information about what the company believes caused an explosion that killed two workers last month at a Doddridge County...
View ArticleWorker dies after fall into rail car at Michigan mill
Mottville Township -- State officials are investigating the death of a 30-year-old Indiana man at a mill in southwest Michigan.
View Article1-2011 Business Topics
... create problems, most notably the underreporting of accidents, and don't necessarily promote workplace safety. In fact, OSHA is shining a renewed spotlight on safety incentive systems as part of...
View ArticleCEO of SeaWorld shareholder suggests trainer was to blame for her death
... this week, new questions surrounded the lead investigator in the federal probe into Brancheau's death. On Tuesday, OSHA officials said they are looking into the woman who led the agency's...
View ArticleOSHA fines Huntington Postal Service $212,500
... and one serious violation and proposed a total of $212,500 in fines, the agency said in a news release. Nationally, OSHA in July for the first time used its authority to seek "enterprise-wide...
View ArticleAirport worker killed on the job, children left with nothing: family
... near Terminal D when he got pinned between a water service truck and the rear hatch of a Canadian Regional Jet 700, an OSHA report says. "Aside from that, nothing," said Sanchez's mom, adding that...
View ArticleOSHA finds unsafe conditions at Crane base
The Crane Army Ammunition Activity about 70 miles southwest of Indianapolis learned last month the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration would issue 36 notices for unsafe working conditions.
View Article2nd body recovered from Omaha plant that collapsed
... investigators were on the scene of the accident Tuesday morning as they took the lead in investigating the collapse, OSHA spokesman Scott Allen said. It was too early to know what might have caused...
View ArticleMill worker dies after fall into rail car
State officials are investigating the death of a 30-year-old Indiana man at a grain elevator operation in southwest Michigan.
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