Bossier Parish Sheriff Larry Deen says vandals are spiking roads to hunting camps in the Plain Dealing area, damaging more than 20 tires and creating a dangerous hazard for people. He says the vandalism started last year. With deer season …
Two city building inspectors and a New York Labor Department inspector were among nine people charged Thursday following a federal investigation into asbestos removal at a Buffalo housing complex that was slated for demolition. Two companies contracted to remove asbestos …
A flexible tubing for natural gas has been linked to at least 24 house fires in the Des Moines area since 2007. Officials told The Des Moines Register that the tubing is vulnerable to damage from lightning. The officials say …
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 …
U.N. inspectors faulted Japan on Wednesday for underestimating the threat of a devastating tsunami on its crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant but praised its overall response to the crisis as exemplary. The preliminary report by a team from the International …
Focus Direct LLC has been slapped with 12 serious, one repeat and four other-than-serious safety and health violations and fined up to $83,000 after an inspection found that workers were exposed to amputation hazards at the company’s San Antonio facility, …
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 …
Water levels on Lake Champlain remained above flood levels Sunday as high waters continued to damage homes and roadways in Vermont. The water level at 10 a.m. was 103.1 feet above sea level in Burlington, according to the National Weather …
Fire-use restrictions go into effect this week throughout the Prescott region and other parts of Arizona. In an unusual move, the higher-elevation Coconino and southern Kaibab national forests started fire restrictions on Friday ahead of the ones for the Prescott …