As many as one in four trucks driving in northwestern North Dakota’s booming oil country are unsafe enough to be put out of service, an inspection effort shows. The state Highway Patrol and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently …
A union lawyer for two health inspectors who issued a permit for a murky Massachusetts public swimming pool where a woman’s body lay unnoticed for days says they had no authority to close the state-operated facility. Jaime DiPaolo-Kenny spoke Tuesday …
Hobbs Bonded Fiber Inc.’s company facility in Waco was cited with 29 serious violations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Proposed penalties total $161,100. Violations include: failing to develop and implement a respiratory program …
When a salmonella outbreak sickened at least 79 people and killed two this past spring in Rhode Island, the state had only seven food safety inspectors. During the month it took health officials to track the outbreak to a small …
Yellowstone National Park rangers and state and federal transportation officials will be conducting safety checks of commercial vehicles and operators traveling in the park throughout the summer. The inspections are designed to ensure the safe operation and mechanical soundness of …
Litigation Causes Insurer Concerns Jeffrey White, a research entomologist with Bed Bug Central in New Jersey, says the bed bug problem is worldwide, though he has seen a dramatic increase in the Northeast. “We use New York City as the …
Inspectors need authority to randomly pull over tour buses on the highway if they are to catch rogue carriers using a variety of schemes to evade even the most basic safety rules, federal and state officials said Monday. Anne Ferro, …
Honda Motor Co’s American branch has recalled about 1,500 current model Civic compact cars in North America due to a fuel leak risk that could lead to a vehicle fire, the company and U.S. federal safety regulators said Friday. The …
Three-quarters of the escalators in Massachusetts shopping malls have not been inspected annually in the past three years as required by law. A Boston Globe review of state Public Safety Department inspection records found that from 2008 to 2010, only …
Toyota Motor Corp has told its U.S. dealers that about 21,000 RAV4 small SUVs from model year 2009 will be inspected for signs of peeling paint on fuel tanks, according to a notice. In the note to dealers, Toyota said …