In his testimony before two Senate committees, Dr. David Michaels recommended indexing OSHA's penalties for inflation and increasing criminal penalties "to provide a credible deterrent."
To celebrate the milestone, IPAF is inviting all valid PAL Card holders to enter a drawing -- and there are currently more than 500,000 valid PAL Cards worldwide.
The Baytown, Texas, company faces $126,000 in proposed fines.
The money is intended to expand the youth skills training and education program.
The Middleburg, Fla., company faces $169,000 in proposed fines.
More than 5,300 workers recovered almost $4.5 million in total for unpaid overtime.
Aiming to teach 5,000 New York City high school students compression-only CPR, the program is taught by the FDNY Mobile CPR Training Unit.
The incidence of them in these reporting states increased by 2-5 percent during that period.
A 4-3 decision by the country's highest court said the evidence Toronto police found on a robbery suspect's phone, including a photo of a handgun and a draft text message which read in part, "We did it," should not be excluded.
The accident occurred at Michael Foods' Big Red Farms facility in Wakefield, Neb.
The company was previously cited for cave-in and trenching hazards, according to OSHA.
The $100 million competition "will help to transform apprenticeships for the 21st century and serve as a catalyst to increase the use of apprenticeships to meet employer needs in new high-tech sectors," according to DOL's announcement.
Trimble Navigation Limited, VDOS Global, LLC, Clayco, Inc. and Woolpert, Inc. are the latest recipients of exemptions from the agency, which previously granted them to seven film and video production companies.
The North Dakota Industrial Commission on Dec. 9 issued an order spelling out conditioning standards that all wells must use, effective April 1, 2015, "to improve the marketability and safe transportation" of Bakken crude oil.
Gary Southern was arrested Dec. 8 and made his initial court appearance before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Ft. Myers, Florida, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced.