The agency announced Friday it has accepted for review a new nuclear reactor application for the Grand Gulf site near Port Gibson, Miss., from Entergy.
The retail giant had claimed that the man would pose a safety risk to himself or customers if he worked at the store using a wheelchair or crutches.
According to EPA, currently available recycling systems can capture up to 99 percent of the mercury in fluorescent bulbs and the mercury can be reused in new bulbs.
The legislation signed this week and effective July 1, will ban smoking in restaurants, bars, and workplaces.
The PPL Martins Creek Power Plant has maintained an injury and illness rate below its industry's average for three years.
The rule replaces an Emergency Temporary Standard that required stronger seals blocking off abandoned areas in underground coal mines.
A major challenge facing the industry is "to develop a workforce that will help us meet our safety mission over the coming decades," NRC Chairman Dale E. Klein said April 15. This photo shows the Oconee 1 reactor in Greenville, S.C.
U.S. House Education and Labor Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., said his committee will hold a hearing next month on workplace injury, illness, and fatality numbers.
"Even under the least damaging circumstances, these identity thieves wreak havoc with the credit and tax histories of innocent U.S. citizens who spend years trying to repair the damage," said Julie L. Myers, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE.
Michigan OSHA announced its resumption April 11 and said it is following OSHA's lead, now that an annual congressional block has been removed.
The settlement resolves allegations that Protective Products International Inc. knowingly supplied the United States with defective Zylon bulletproof vests.
OSHA's National Emphasis Program for petroleum refineries is showing results with new citations alleging 13 serious, two repeat, and one other-than-serious violation by a Port Arthur, Texas, facility.
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao described the Chicago-based firm's actions as "gross abuse of the trust that workers and their families placed in the management of these pension funds."
AAA says its new analysis should spur more state action on graduated driver licensing programs.
A legislative package filed Tuesday by PM Stephen Harper is intended to improve the safety of food, consumer, and health products in Canada.
OSHA proposed $119,500 in fines against Con-Way Freight Inc., an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based delivery carrier, for alleged violations after a worker died at the company's Manchester, N.H., service center.
"We believe that we have instilled a culture of safety that is beyond sustainable, it is contagious," said Novartis CFO Gary Rosenthal.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday announced the settlement of its age discrimination lawsuit against Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications for $773,000 for a class of eight older employees.
The facility faces $255,800 in proposed penalties for failing to train employees who may work with formaldehyde and failing to conduct airborne exposure evaluations, among other things.
OSHA issued eight willful citations to the company for its failure to provide fall protection in hoisting areas and on low-sloped roofs, failing to cover skylight openings to prevent falls, and not training employees about fall hazards.