The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that an Administrative Law Judge of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has ruled in favor of upholding citations issued to Thomas Industrial Coatings Inc. of Pevely, Mo., …
A federal jury in Des Moines has ruled that an Iowa hotel chain unlawfully fired an employee because of her “tomboy” appearance. The jury found that Heartland Inns of America fired Brenna Lewis for not conforming to the hotel’s gender …
The United States is lagging behind nearly every other high-income country in reducing annual traffic fatalities, said a report released this week by a U.S. government research panel. There’s some good news: U.S. traffic fatalities fell 9.7 percent in 2009 …
Lacking standards to weigh costs against safety, BP and its partners made critical errors leading to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, according to a scientific panel report obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. Interim findings from the National …
Aon Benfield has issued a briefing on uncommon European winter storm tracks in conjunction with the University of Cologne. The research points to a lower total number of events in the future, but “indicates intense storms moving over the North …
The National Transportation Safety Board is faulting Massachusetts for not doing enough to combat what they call “hardcore” drunken drivers. The NTSB said Massachusetts is among 10 states in the country that have adopted four or fewer of 11 drunken …
A bystander wounded in a police shootout with another man as a crowd left a New York City block party is suing the city and police. Larry Garlick seeks unspecified damages in a suit filed Friday. City lawyers declined to …
An investigation born of a fiery plane crash at a small New Jersey airport nearly six years ago has culminated in convictions for two brothers from Guyana accused of skirting safety regulations as they ran a charter jet company that …
Cal/OSHA has implemented updated safety standards for employees working in outdoor heat. The revisions to the Heat Illness Prevention Standard, approved by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board on August 19, provide clarification of the shade requirement, including temperature …
A broken pipe that flooded Erie County’s Office of Children and Youth last November has cost nearly $1.3 million to fix . While insurance covered new carpeting and other repairs, the busted pipe revealed that the county needed to replace …