New Year's Day tops the list of most deadly day for alcohol-related fatalities.
The new $9.19 per hour minimum in Washington state applies to workers in all industries, but 14- and 15-year-olds legally may be paid just 85 percent of it.
It will rise to $242,000 effective Jan. 28, and the maximum penalty for failing to provide timely notification of an accident will increase to $65,000.
Infrastructure projects that slowed or halted during the economic downturn are now being completed, and the construction sector is growing along with the population of the six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council, according to a new analysis.
Ten thousand typical homes on the island can be powered by the eight wind turbines installed on a ridge of the Haleakala volcano.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' 249th Prime Power Battalion non-commissioned officers conducted the training on safety fundamentals, power line maintenance, operating bucket trucks, and operating augur trucks used to drill and place utility poles.
Sirturo is the first drug approved to treat multi-drug resistant TB. It works by inhibiting an enzyme needed by M. tuberculosis to replicate and spread throughout the body.
The New Year's holiday brings a spike in DUI arrests and, in many states, in alcohol-related crashes.
The drilling ship is being investigated for worker safety concerns and issues with pollution control equipment.
Honeywell recently announced it has been awarded the $4.8 million contract to install the health and usage monitoring systems in all 42 of the U.S. Coast Guard's MH-60T helicopters.
More Americans abuse prescription drugs than use cocaine, hallucinogens, and heroin combined, according to the agency.
Six states and the District of Columbia were awarded funds that can help provide insurance for the unemployed.
The company admitted no liability and maintains that it complied with disclosure requirements and the two federal contracts in all material respects.
The latest update from WorkSafeBC indicates some orders for corrective action on combustible dusts have been issued by the agency during follow-up visits to 172 locations.
The goal of the plan is to encourage the use of health information technology to eliminate medical errors, improve the quality of care, protect patients, and increase efficiency in the U.S. health care system.
The authors of an online JAMA article, Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., MPH, and Frederick P. Rivara, M.D., MPH, argue we'd know more about how to prevent mass shootings and firearm fatalities in general if CDC and other federal agencies still studied why they happen.
"Together, we can save thousands of trees from being thrown out to waste and also provide critical support to help preserve our wetlands," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said.