OSHA Adjusts Penalty Amounts for 2018 January 18, 2018 On January 2, civil penalty amounts for violations of workplace safety and health standards increased by two percent from last...
Fall Protection New to OSHA’s ‘Top 10’ List of Most Cited Violations October 4, 2017 The preliminary list of OSHA’s Top 10 violations for Fiscal Year 2017 remained largely unchanged from FY 2016, except for...
California Tuna Company to Pay $6M Settlement in Worker Oven Death August 14, 2015 By BRIAN MELLEY Bumble Bee Foods agreed to pay $6 million to settle criminal charges Wednesday in the death of a worker who...
Manufacturer Fined Nearly $182K for Safety Violations at Texas Facility December 15, 2014 A federal inspection prompted by employee complaints found workers exposed to amputations and other hazards at D&D Manufacturing Inc. in...
Montana Asphalt Plant Denies OSHA Charges in Worker Death April 3, 2014 A Bitterroot Valley, Mont., asphalt company owner has denied charges his company violated federal safety standards in the September 2012...
Lack of Fall Protection Nets Oregon Company $74K Fine February 12, 2014 An Oregon construction company has been fined nearly $73,000 for repeatedly not protecting its employees from falls. The fine comes...
Firm involved in West Virginia Cell Tower Collapse Fined in ’09 February 10, 2014 The company that employed two of the three people killed in the collapse of a pair of cellphone towers in...
West Virginia Recycling Plant Resolves Violations Over Fatal Fire December 27, 2013 Federal regulators are resolving workplace safety and environmental violations at a Hancock County metals recycling plant where three workers died...
Dallas Employers Face $97K in Penalties Following Forklift Deaths November 27, 2013 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Georg Fischer Central Plastics LLC and Nationwide Plastics...
OSHA Fines Trucking Company $113K After Worker Fatality in Arkansas November 5, 2013 Sherman Brothers Trucking Inc., doing business as Team Transport Inc., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...