August 5, 2011
Federal regulators say they have cited an eastern Pennsylvania bottling company after finding two dozen workplace safety and health violations. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday it’s levying nearly $111,000 in fines against A-Treat Bottling Co. OSHA says …
July 18, 2011
A Valley business that makes grain bins has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 23 violations of workplace rules. Bushnell Illinois Tank Co., which operates in Valley as Schuld/Bushnell, faces more than $142,000 in fines. OSHA …
July 12, 2011
Macy’s Inc has agreed to pay a $750,000 fine for failing to report for four years that it had sold kids’ clothes with drawstrings at the neck, a strangulation hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Monday. The CPSC …
July 7, 2011
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Howard Industries for 17 safety and health violations following the January death of a worker who was electrocuted while calibrating a transformer test station. Authorities say the worker was testing electrical transformers …
June 24, 2011
Tyson Foods Inc. has contested a $70,000 fine levied by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following the collapse of a silo that killed a man at Tyson’s feed mill in Nashville. OSHA issued the fine June 1 after finding …
June 23, 2011
The North Carolina Department of Labor has cited a Concord company for workplace rules infractions after an employee died in a fall. The Salisbury Post reported Wednesday that the Occupational Health and Safety Division has fined Sysco Guest Supply $12,500 …
June 22, 2011
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. will challenge allegations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that the company committed safety violations at its plant in Tupelo. Cooper Tire spokeswoman Michelle Zeisloft tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that the company …
June 21, 2011
Arreola Masonry has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) with three serious and three repeat safety violations for exposing workers to fall hazards at the company’s work site in Cedar Park, Texas. …
June 21, 2011
Liquid Feed Commodities Inc., located in Fremont, has been cited for 20 serious and one other-than-serious violation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Proposed fines total $79,200. OSHA’s inspection of Liquid Feed Commodities was …
June 13, 2011
The Philomath Fire Department says it will appeal a state fine for improper asbestos removal, saying it unintentionally hired an unlicensed firm to do the work. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports the state Department of Environmental Quality announced a proposed fine …