The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found JBS USA responsible for the death of a man who was caught in a conveyer belt system at the company’s Greeley meatpacking plant. The Greeley Tribune reports OSHA cited the company twice …
The company that employed two utility workers who died when the crane they were in tipped over as they worked on high-tension power lines on Cape Cod is facing $168,000 in fines. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration in …
Federal safety officials say a worker wrongly put parts coated with flammable materials into an electric oven before it exploded at a Mersen USA plant in Pennsylvania, killing a visiting employee. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing …
Plastic Systems LLC in El Paso, Texas, was cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 21 safety and health violations, including six repeat, for failing to develop adequate lockout/tagout procedures to control the unexpected …
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a southwest Idaho company $4,500 following a worker’s death. The Idaho Press-Tribune reports in a story on Wednesday that the agency fined Rule Steel on July 3 for violating rules involving forklift …
The Miami Seaquarium has been issued a $7,000 fine for allowing trainers to work with a killer whale without sufficient protections. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the citation to the Florida aquarium earlier this month. The citation is …
A federal agency has fined the company that spilled chemicals into West Virginia’s largest water supply $11,000 for a pair of violations. The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Freedom Industries $7,000 for keeping storage tanks containing crude …
Federal safety regulators have cited a Texas sawmill for failure-to-abate previous safety violations and continuing to expose workers still to serious hazards. More than $125,000in fines are proposed for Gillespie Lumber Ltd. in Nacogdoches, which was cited by the U.S. …
A suburban Portland, Ore., wildcat sanctuary has agreed to pay $5,600 in penalties related to a fatal cougar attack on its head keeper. The Oregonian reports that a settlement agreement between WildCat Haven Sanctuary and the Oregon Occupational Safety and …
Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health is fining a company nearly $52,000 for violations following an accident that killed a demolition worker on a new St. Paul Saints ballpark. Johnny Valek, 61, of Plymouth, was killed in September when a concrete …