Residents sue to delay start-up of Bayers MIC unit
More then a dozen Kanawha Valley residents filed suit Tuesday afternoon to try to stop Bayer CropScience from restarting the methyl isocyanate unit at its Institute plant until new government safety...
View ArticleTraining & Inspections Drive Safe Practices: Forklift Safety Should Be a Top...
... on forklift incidents in the workplace are shocking. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) there are as many as 35,000 serious accidents and 62,000 non-serious...
View ArticleHo-hum: Combustible dust rules
... panel to consider a rule to protect workers from combustible dust and how any rules would affect small businesses. Now, OSHA says April 2014, maybe. Unglamorous as it may be, controlling...
View ArticleOSHA's Plan to Air Employers' Potentially Dirty Laundry Online
Trying to keep your illness and injury reports low profile? According to new rules proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration , not under their watch! At an estimated cost of $10.5...
View ArticleTyson Foods fined after worker's hand severed
... employees hand was severed by a conveyor belt. US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began its inspection after learning of the amputation, on June 17 when...
View ArticleDell'Osso Farms Zip Line Becomes First In State To Be Regulated By OSHA
... said Susan, a Dell'Osso Farms co-owner. Now a massive zip line in Lathrop has become the first in the state to pass OSHA's safety standards. The rush of flying through the air is a rush hundreds of...
View ArticleFirms face fines over equine center construction collapse
... A&M University's College Station campus. The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Houston-based employers Gamma Construction Co. and Ramco...
View ArticleBusiness Briefs: Builders association will host CPR training
Attendees will receive a two-year certification in first aid and CPR. The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires a person who has a valid certificate in first-aid training be...
View ArticleNSA probe of tea party purely political
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View ArticleUS help for La Brea spill
... (MEEA), the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA), the Coast Guard and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), began its assessment of the spill and clean-up activities. a December...
View ArticleFood Behind Bars Isn't Fit for Your Dog
... jail, including persistent mold on walls and elsewhere, with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and state and county officials. The results of her complaints have been...
View Article2 Companies Cited After A&M Structure Collapse 12/23/13
... reported Sunday that all four men work for Ramco Erectors. The Houston-based company was fined $40,500 for seven OSHA violations. The general contractor, Gamma Construction Co., was cited for one...
View ArticleLawsuit Suit Filed In Kyle Field Construction Death
OSHA is still investigating the December 3rd accident and has not released its findings.
View ArticleT.B. Penick & Sons describe the evolution of the construction industry
... and hands. All of that changed with the creation of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1971. The OSHA Outreach Training Program provides training for workers and employers on...
View ArticleNew rules for power line workers in the offing
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards have been in the works for more than a decade and would update the more than 40-year-old safety rules for the industry, which is...
View ArticleOSHA cites Pure Power Technologies for safety violations
... by an electric arc flash while servicing a 480-volt circuit breaker without proper protective equipment on June 25, OSHA said. The agency said Pure Power's failure to ensure that protective...
View ArticleOSHA schedules meeting on e-reporting of injuries, illnesses
... submit quarterly reports on their injuries and illnesses. That's the first proposed new requirement under a rule OSHA has proposed. The idea of the electronic reporting is to ramp up tracking of...
View Article6 Crimes Against Nature in Factory Farming Part I
... phenolics and peroxides. They used to be fumigated with formaldehyde but the Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) objected-those nannies. Animal husbandry can be practiced in a way that an...
View ArticleCombustible dust rules
... panel to consider a rule to protect workers from combustible dust and how any rules would affect small businesses. Now, OSHA says April 2014, maybe. Unglamorous as it may be, controlling...
View ArticleOSHA fines Tyson plant in Hutchinson after worker severs hand
... last 10 years the plant has had seven serious violations, and that some of the most recent violations were "willful." OSHA proposed the $147,000 fine for four violations found during its latest...
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