The U. S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administrationhas cited U.S. Minerals LLC with 11 safety and health violations from a follow-up inspection that began in September 2013 at the Harvey, La., facility. The manufacturer of abrasive blasting …
An Atlanta branch of a Minnesota-based food production company was slapped with 32 health and safety violations, federal regulators announced Wednesday. The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration describes the citations for Schwan’s Global Supply Chain Inc. as …
Federal workplace safety officials are seeking $43,000 in fines from a Rhode Island wood pellet company for alleged violations related to a 2013 explosion and fire. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Monday that it has cited Inferno Wood …
Bowing to congressional pressure, the Obama administration is assuring Congress and farmers it doesn’t want to regulate the country’s smallest farms. In a letter to Congress dated Feb. 10, a top official with the U.S. Department of Labor wrote to …
For decades, the federal agency that oversees workplace safety has been prohibited from regulating small farming operations. But lawmakers in South Dakota and other farm states have grown concerned that could be changing and are seeking to head off any …
The Tennessee Chamber of Commerce is promoting a series of occupational safety and health training seminars across the state. The seminars will be offered through the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration and educational centers, universities and colleges in the …
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is holding a public meeting later this month to discuss results of the first comprehensive government study of cancer rates among employees in the circuit board manufacturing industry. The NIOSH study of …
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating two workplace deaths in Williams County, N.D., over the last few weeks. The Williston Herald reports that a fallen forklift crushed a 26-year-old Colorado man and killed him on Dec. 18. Daniel …
Federal workplace safety officials have cited the U.S. Postal Service in the July death of a mail carrier who collapsed while walking his route on a day that the heat index went over 100 degrees. WCVB-TV reports the Occupational Safety …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Welspun Tubular LLC in Little Rock, Ark., for two safety and health violations for exposing workers to possible amputation hazards at its Little Rock facility. The proposed penalty …