Enforcement


Advanced Tree Service Cited for Willful, Serious Violations Following Fatality

The Newberry, Fla. company faces $41,000 in proposed penalties.

OSHA Cites Texas Dollar Tree Stores for Putting Employees at Risk

The citation adds to penalties facing the retail chain across the nation.

Mississippi Lumber Mill Cited Following Worker Fatality

OSHA cited the employer for willful and serious safety violations.

FedEx Ground Packaging System Inc. Cited for Machine Guarding Hazard

OSHA has previously cited the company in 2010 and 2011 for similar hazards at facilities in Grove City, Ohio, and Syracuse, N.Y.

OSHA Cites Haverhill Chemicals in Fatality

The company has been placed in the Severe Violator Enforcement Program, OSHA announced.

MSHA Releases Findings on Double Fatality

The findings are in regards to the double fatality at a West Virginia coal mine.

MSHA Chief Says Pattern of Violations Reforms Have Made Mines Safer

Assistant Secretary Joseph A. Main addressed the changes as they neared their second anniversary.

OSHA Cites Ohio Employer After Supervisor's Death

The man was injured when he was struck by a metal door.



Cal/OSHA to Investigate After Successful High-Rise Rescue

A senior safety engineer with the agency worked with Tractel Inc. and the Orange County Fire Department to rescue two window washers stuck on a building’s 18th floor Oct. 1.

FDA Takes Action Against New Jersey Manufacturer

The agency is seeking a permanent injunction, and its complaint states that FDA is aware of people who were infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa after surgical procedures at a Michigan hospital involving one of the company's products.

Struck-by Vehicle Incidents Cause 15 Percent of Workplace Fatalities in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska

OSHA is continuing its outreach campaign to educate employers and workers in the region.

Florida Contractor Cited for Fall Hazards

OSHA has cited Jasper Contractors of Jacksonville, Fla., for six safety violations.

MSHA Issues POV Notice to Underground Silver Mine in Colorado

Two mines in Texas and Alabama received postponement notices, as well.

Texas DPS Helping Practitioners with Hydrocodone Change

The agency has increased staffing and resources to respond to medical practitioners serving Texas patients who require prescriptions for hydrocodone combination products, which are being moved Oct. 6 from classification as a Schedule III drug to more-restrictive Schedule II class.

OSHA Cites Wireless Horizon Following Cell Towers' Collapse

The collapse killed two workers last March.

Ten Serious Safety Violations Found at General Glass International

Electrical and machine hazards were among those found at the Secaucus, N.J., plant, according to OSHA.

Fras-le Cited for 17 Safety and Health Violations

An OSHA inspection was initiated as part of the agency's Regional Emphasis Program for safety hazards in the auto parts industry.

MSHA Extends Comment Period on Civil Penalties Rule

The rule would simplify the criteria and increase the relative weight of those that reflect the seriousness of the operator's conduct.

Eleven congressional Democrats, including the HELP Committee

AIHA Wants NIOSH to Recommend E-Cigarette Limits

Comments submitted Sept. 15 by Christine A.D. Lorenzo, CIH, the association's president, ask NIOSH to either include e-cigarettes in the definition of smokeless tobacco in its draft Current Intelligence Bulletin or to provide recommendations for limiting their use in indoor workplaces.

D & J Ironworks Cited Following Fatal Fire

The company was cited for inadequate workplace safeguards following a fatal fire in Boston's Back Bay.

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