Representatives of a car parts manufacturing company say they’ve remedied several issues and increased training after receiving the most federal safety violations in Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Sunday that Sewon America, which manufactures components for Kia, has been inspected …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced the Texas Medical Group (TMG) has earned a $972,604 workers’ compensation dividend. The dividend is based largely on the group’s collective workplace safety record. Qualifying TMG members have shared in $4.6 million in Texas Mutual …
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer today announced nine safety intervention grants were awarded to employers during the month of August. The Safety-Intervention Grant Program assists Ohio employers in reducing illnesses and injuries and creates a partnership …
Rates of serious workplace injury and illness vary significantly between states—even for workers in the same industries—according to a recent report released by Allsup, a nationwide provider of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) representation. The report is based on data …
President Barack Obama on Thursday cut off longtime U.S. trade benefits for Bangladesh in a mostly symbolic response to dangerous conditions in that country’s garment industry that have cost more than 1,200 lives in the past year. “I have determined …
A fire breaks out in a Chinese factory, and panicked workers discover one exit after another is locked. That describes not only the poultry plant fire that killed 119 people Monday, but a toy-factory blaze that left 87 workers dead …
Federal jurors in Seattle, Wash., have awarded $3.45 million to the estate and survivors of a woman who drowned in 2010 while working on a ship conversion. The Seattle Times reports the jurors found the ship’s owner, G Shipping Ltd., …
Federal workplace safety investigations show that at least 11 deaths in Texas’ oilfields could have been prevented if companies followed safety protocols. The San Antonio Express-News reported Sunday that it used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain details about …
The head of Indiana’s workplace safety agency has stepped down after seven years in the job, during which the department issued some of the largest safety fines in the state’s history. Jeff Carter’s resignation as deputy state labor commissioner overseeing …
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) awarded safety intervention grants to five Ohio businesses totaling more than $153,000 in October. BWC designed the Safety Intervention Grant Program to assist Ohio employers in reducing illnesses and injuries and to create …