State regulators have issued $200,000 in fines against Chrysler for safety violations found during the investigation of a worker’s death at a central Indiana factory. The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s investigation began in January after 62-year-old Claude Brock …
Vestas Towers America Inc. says it has enhanced safety measures since an employee at its wind turbine manufacturing plant in Pueblo suffered a broken wrist and partial amputation of two fingers. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspected after the …
Taft Grain & Elevator Co. was cited with four willful and 16 serious violations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), following the death of an employee who became engulfed in grain at the company’s work site in Taft. …
Quinco Steel Inc., located in Chicago Heights, has been cited by OSHA for four repeat safety violations after people were observed working at heights without fall protection during a January job site inspection in Chicago. The steel erection contractor faces …
State highway officials have announced that 330 people have been cited for violating the state’s hands-free cell phone law during a one-day sweep last week. Authorities said on Tuesday that the April 21 crackdown was part of National Distracted Driving …
A Minnesota wind farm-service company, located in Livingston County about 35 miles northeast of Bloomington, was fined $378,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) following an accident that injured an employee working on a central Illinois wind turbine. …
Lone Star Bakery Inc., a private commercial bakery that employs about 500 workers, has been cited by OSHA for 32 serious, one repeat, and 16 other-than-serious violations following following a finger tip amputation incident on the pie processing line and …
Pocahontas Aluminum Co. Inc., a company that employs about 85 workers and manufactures aluminum window and door products, has been cited by OSHA with 19 alleged serious and five alleged repeat safety and health violations at the company’s facility in …
United Furniture Industries, charged by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in February with safety violations, has paid its fine to the federal agency. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports OSHA reduced the original $66,000 penalty to $37,500. OSHA says …