OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A seafood processing plant has been fined $56,000 in connection with a 2021 COVID outbreak that left one employee dead. The Department of Labor and Industries announced the fine against Shining Ocean Inc. on Monday, Northwest …
COVID-19 cases at a JBS meatpacking plant in Colorado have more than doubled “in a number of days” and a sixth employee died of the virus, a union official said on Thursday, underscoring the risks of U.S. meat plants reopening. …
A Nebraska company faces an $84,000 fine in connection to the May death of a worker who fell while loading a tanker truck. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Farmers Cooperative was being fined for …
San Angelo, Texas, police have identified a man who fell 140 feet to his death while working on a downtown telephone tower. A police statement identified the worker as 28-year-old Cody Freeman of The Colony, a northern suburb of Dallas. …
A Bitterroot Valley, Mont., asphalt company owner has denied charges his company violated federal safety standards in the September 2012 death of an employee. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says MR Asphalt Inc.’s registered agent and president, Martin Romano of Victor, …
Police in northwest suburban Chicago say a man has died after he fell from a truck lift gate while unloading boxes at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. Schaumburg Police Sgt. John Nebl tells the Daily Herald that 44-year-old Eric Terrell of …
Federal safety authorities cited a roofing company and proposed $70,000 in penalties for a worker’s fatal fall from one Omaha roof to another, the agency said Monday. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said JMA Roofing …
A federal judge has sentenced the former president of a Port Arthur, Texas, chemical company to one year in prison for occupational safety crimes that led to an employee’s death. Matthew Lawrence Bowman is the former president and owner of …
State health and safety officials have cited a Northern California manufacturing plant after investigating the death of a worker who was crushed in a machine. Cal-OSHA on Tuesday cited the Henkel Corporation more than $200,000 for six violations after the …
An employee at a metal company in Sanford, N.C., has died after bales of copper wiring fell on him. Police say an employee was working on a forklift near some large stacked bales of copper wiring Monday afternoon when one …