If enough injured workers, employers, and health care providers opt in, the agency could save at least $1.3 million in the first year alone.
Former Coast Guard Vice Admiral Brian Salerno will take the helm of BSEE on Aug. 26.
"This new preliminary estimate confirms that Lyme disease is a tremendous public health problem in the United States and clearly highlights the urgent need for prevention," said Dr. Paul Mead, M.D., MPH, chief of epidemiology and surveillance for CDC's Lyme disease program.
The Northumberland County EMS has begun using three new ambulances with lime green coloring and highly reflective prismatic material to make them more visible, especially at night.
All sterile drug products made and distributed by NuVision Pharmacy of Dallas may still pose a serious risk to patients, according to the agency.
Two are now in clinical trials and involve replacement skin grown in a lab and a “spray-on” skin process, according to a report by Terri Moon Cronk of American Forces Press Service.
The biggest UK fire department hopes emergency calls to rescue animals will disappear.
After no confirmed cases were reported in Texas last year, there have been 11 thus far in 2013.
An investigation by California's Labor Enforcement Task Force found the unpaid wages and also 13 workplace safety violations.
Troy W. Thacker became the Houston-based company's president and CEO effective Aug. 5.
The two DOT agencies, FRA and PHMSA, want to hearing from stakeholders because they have begun a review of operational factors that affect the safe transportation of hazmats by rail.
Two employees from the company competed at the Leipzig event in July, one in electrical installations and the other in aircraft maintenance.
They can determine whether their mines are reducing significant and substantial (S&S) violations.
The Canadian Transportation Agency suspended the Certificate of Fitness issued to Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, Ltd. and Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Canada Co., a subsidiary, stating they now lack adequate third-party liability insurance coverage.
"We can help people and communities in a more comprehensive way when we pool our resources and services together in a coordinated way. This not only speeds recovery, but helps us engage the entire community in building the resilience we need as we face disasters of this type in the future," said Jerry DeFrancisco, president of Humanitarian Services at the Red Cross.
The new blueprint calls for cutting workplace injuries and fatalities by 25 percent by 2020.
Already included in OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program, the company is facing 24 alleged safety violations, mainly involving fall protection.