The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration wants to fine a Pittsburgh-area candy factory $84,150 for workplace safety violations allegedly found after a worker suffered serious head injuries when a machine accidentally started in October. Officials with Tsudis Chocolate Co. …
Federal regulators are investigating an accident that killed a worker at a Salt Lake City manufacturing plant. Salt Lake City fire spokesman Scott Freitag says 34-year-old Inoke Langi was killed Friday at Cambelt International Corp., which makes conveyer belts. He …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $146,000 in safety and health penalties against an Amite, La., steel mill. OSHA said Monday it cited Bradken Inc. with 27 serious and seven other-than-serious violations at the company’s steel alloy …
Federal inspectors have proposed fining a yogurt maker $178,000 safety violations at its upstate New York plant. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the problems at Agro Farma Inc.’s Chobani Greek Yogurt plant in Chenango County included unguarded moving …
Federal officials have fined a Minnesota company nearly $12,000 for safety violations after a worker died in a grisly construction accident near Aspen Highlands, Colo., in August. Thirty-nine-year-old Greg Watson of Minneapolis was killed after his safety cord got tangled …
OSHA cited Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for a total of 24 alleged repeat and serious violations of workplace safety and health standards at its supercenter store No. 2859 in Rochester, New York. The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer faces a total of $365,500 …
North Charleston, S.C., is fighting a $2,000 fine by the state Occupational Health and Safety Administration for not filling out paperwork before firefighters battled a house fire two years ago, among other things. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports …
The U.S. Labor Department has recommended fining Wal-Mart $365,500 after inspectors say they found 24 workplace safety violations at an upstate New York store. The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it received a complaint about a Rochester …
Workplace safety citations that Wyoming issued to two companies for an oil facility explosion that killed three workers last summer carry more than $34,000 in fines. The citations allege four violations by Tulsa, Okla.-based Samson Resources, carrying $19,800 in fines. …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has accused Jennie-O Turkey Store of 11 safety violations at its Barron plant in connection with an accident last July. An employee’s arm was severed below the shoulder while cleaning some equipment in …