Wonton Foods, Inc. has verbally agreed to voluntarily stop the production and sale of its bean sprouts. It is cooperating with public health and agriculture officials and has reported that its last shipment of bean sprouts was made on Nov.18.
The city's Office of Emergency Management launched a "Reduce Your Risk" campaign on Nov. 21 and released NYC's Risk Landscape: A Guide to Hazard Mitigation.
The London Fire Brigade reported 35 firefighters and officers responded to the fire, which damaged a small section of the front carriage of a train on platform 6 and a section of track. There were no injuries.
The NSC sent out a message showing their support for Mark Rosekind.
The American Red Cross announced three holiday promotions and product discounts for corporate and organization worksite training programs.
The operator, Houston-based Fieldwood Energy, reported three other workers were hurt in the Nov. 20 explosion and are being treated at an on-shore medical facility.
Soldream Inc. faces more than $59,000 in proposed fines for multiple safety and health violations.
Austal USA LLC has been cited three times by OSHA in the past five years.
"America's railroads are moving more traffic since the recession. Business production and consumer demand are increasing, and rail is playing a bigger part in getting American goods to market," the Association of American Railroads' president and CEO, Edward R. Hamberger, said Nov. 20.
The California Public Utilities Commission approved it Nov. 20.
The worker was injured by a front-end loader in Shelby, Neb.
A new report form the European Environment Agency (EEA) says air pollution is still the main environmental health hazard.
The annual day on which smokers are strongly encouraged to quit occurs on the third Thursday of November.
Thanksgiving Day is the peak day of the year for home cooking fires.
Aspic? Turducken? Fruitcake? Jello salad? All are possibilities in the Seattle Public Utilities contest to pick the "worst Thanksgiving dish in Seattle."
OSHA investigated in May after a worker was severely injured while performing maintenance.
A temporary staffing agency was also cited following the inspection.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Nov. 17 thanked troops at Fort Campbell, Ky., saying, "The challenges and threats that face our country in the world today are not just from Islamic fundamentalists or from terrorists, but from health diseases and pandemic health threats that threaten the world. Ebola is part of that overall scope of threats."
Driver William D.W. Scott's truck was permitted to carry a load no taller than 15 feet, 9 inches, but his load, a metal casing, measured 15 feet, 11 inches. The load struck 11 of the bridge's sway braces as the truck crossed the bridge.
The agency's annual message comes in advance of "Black Friday."