The company's settlement resolves 119 citations and orders issued for safety violations at its Ponce Cement Plant and Cantera Canas mines. MSHA issued the citations and orders for violations including obstructed and unsafe travel ways and workplaces, safety defects on mobile equipment and machinery, and unguarded machine parts.
The emphasis comes after an annual rise in work-related deaths in Britain.
Community wellness programs at clinics and other sites will refer patients in disease management groups to Fit NOLA Live Well; participants will get an NORDC key card for free fitness activities at 12 NORDC recreation centers, 12 summer and three year-round pools, and several playgrounds.
The state's COLA increase also applies to pension benefits paid to family members of employees who died because of a work-related accident or disease.
The agenda says the second discussion topic on July 13 is tank car retrofit logistics and capacity and "what is the industry's current capability to pursue an aggressive retrofit or replacement schedule given the implementation requirements of Section 7304 of the FAST Act."
BP is working with manufacturer Planet Ocean, the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre at the UK's National Oceanography Centre, and the Scottish Association of Marine Science to optimize the microsub technology before starting the first trial in the North Sea in December.
The tour is intended to raise public awareness of the Takata airbag recall, vehicle recalls and how to search for them using NHTSA's Recalls Look-Up Tool, as well as tire maintenance, child safety seats, and heatstroke when children are left in hot cars.
OSHA says that proper safety procedures and training would have prevented the accident.
The company's announcement said "Upon emergence, Alpha is expected to operate as a privately held company, positioned well to satisfy its environmental obligations on an ongoing basis."
Food and thrill ride safety and fairgoers' security will be paramount throughout the fair. The new entertainment options this year include a high dive show where divers jump from an 80-foot platform into a pool of water below during three daily shows.
"The opioid epidemic is one of the most pressing public health issues in the United States. More Americans now die from drug overdoses than car crashes, and these overdoses have hit families from every walk of life and across our entire nation," said Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. "At HHS, we are helping to lead the nationwide effort to address the opioid epidemic by taking a targeted approach focused on prevention, treatment, and intervention."
The company was also cited for failing to provide respiratory protection.
FMCSA said it will consider a crash non-preventable if the commercial motor vehicle was hit by a motorist who was convicted of one of these offenses, or a related offense: DUI, driving the wrong direction, striking the CMV in the rear, or striking the CMV while it was legally stopped.
The new policy is intended for general aviation aircraft.
13 serious and one other-than-serious violation were found.