Federal workplace safety authorities say an upstate New York copper wire manufacturer has agreed to pay nearly $33,000 in fines after an explosion injured an employee. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says Tecnofil Chenango SAC will also take additional …
Federal officials are investigating why a Jersey shore house damaged by Superstorm Sandy collapsed while being jacked up, injuring three workers. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has sent three investigators to Little Egg Harbor Township. OSHA spokeswoman Joanna Hawkins …
The Obama administration’s lack of action to impose recommended changes to make refineries, chemical factories and sugar plants safer is set to get a public rebuke from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board. The independent investigative agency said yesterday it will …
Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the crack in the fermentation tank at Calhoun’s Bar-B-Q & Brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee. The space was oversaturated with oxygen. He …
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating three workplace deaths in western North Dakota. Mountrail County Sheriff Ken Halvorson says two men were killed Monday when they fell 250 feet from a cellphone tower. Halvorson says 42-year-old Namon Smith …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is launching a program aimed at reducing serious injuries and fatalities associated with the operation of cranes in construction, general industry and maritime operations for employers under federal OSHA jurisdiction …
Officials are investigating a fatal accident involving a stump grinder that killed a tree service worker in Portsmouth, N.H. Police say 43-year-old Matthew Morasse of Rochester was killed on the job on Thursday. The Portsmouth Herald reports that Morasse was …
The U.S. Department of Labor says Dallas-based U.S. Lime Co. has agreed to a settlement in the May 2010 death of a maintenance manager at the company’s St. Clair Mine in Marble City, Okla. The department’s Mine Safety and Health …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched an initiative to further protect temporary employees from workplace hazards. An OSHA memorandum directs field inspectors to assess whether employers who use temporary workers are complying with their …
California safety regulators have fined a Disney contractor $60,995 after a worker was injured while cleaning the Space Mountain ride. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health says Los Angeles-based HSG Inc. violated several safety rules. The fine was …