The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited two companies for a fatal accident at a plant construction site in Chippewa Falls. OSHA issued what it calls a “serious” citation, in which it’s likely the companies knew or should have …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Apex Enterprises Inc. of San Antonio, Texas, with 11 serious violations for exposing workers to fall, electrical and struck-by hazards at the company’s worksite in Pflugerville, Texas. Proposed …
A veterans’ health care center in North Chicago has received 33 notices of unsafe working conditions from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA Chicago North area office director Diane Turek said Monday that the center “failed to properly ensure” …
Black lung disease, long a killer of coal miners, is on the rise again after retreating in the 30 years since Congress passed tougher mine safety laws, health and safety experts said Friday. The renewed appearance of the disease emerged …
Vestas Towers America Inc. says it has enhanced safety measures since an employee at its wind turbine manufacturing plant in Pueblo suffered a broken wrist and partial amputation of two fingers. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspected after the …
Focus Direct LLC has been slapped with 12 serious, one repeat and four other-than-serious safety and health violations and fined up to $83,000 after an inspection found that workers were exposed to amputation hazards at the company’s San Antonio facility, …
Taft Grain & Elevator Co. was cited with four willful and 16 serious violations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), following the death of an employee who became engulfed in grain at the company’s work site in Taft. …
Quinco Steel Inc., located in Chicago Heights, has been cited by OSHA for four repeat safety violations after people were observed working at heights without fall protection during a January job site inspection in Chicago. The steel erection contractor faces …
An assisted living center has been cited with 17 safety and health violations after a nurse practitioner allegedly was hurt in a needle stick incident. Paradise Park Assisted Living center in Lake Zurich was cited by the U.S. Occupational Safety …
A Minnesota wind farm-service company, located in Livingston County about 35 miles northeast of Bloomington, was fined $378,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) following an accident that injured an employee working on a central Illinois wind turbine. …