The operator of a Chehalis-based halfway house is accused of receiving $90,000 in workers’ compensation benefits.
"With one small exception, our decision today brings to an end much of the permanent warfare surrounding the HOS rules."
The building products company won the 2013 Green Cross for Safety Award, and Allstate and the Allstate Foundation received the Flame of Life award for their efforts to reduce teen traffic accident deaths.
Dec. 5 is the new deadline for public comments on the agency’s proposal to revise 30 CFR 250 subpart H, Oil and Gas Production Safety Systems, to address recent technological advances.
The two-year project by researchers at two universities will involve interviews with key stakeholders and explore changing attitudes in the past 50 years.
The PHMSA safety advisory said an investigation indicated Beauchesne Fire Equipment of Attleboro Falls, Mass., marked about 5,900 high-pressure compressed gas cylinders with test dates and Requalifier Identification Number H557 in 2011 and 2012 without conducting the prescribed hydrostatic testing of them.
The agency's rule will require most Class III devices, such as automated external defibrillators, to have unique device identifiers on their label and packaging within a year.
The money was awarded to over 70 different nonprofit organizations and community groups.
Agapito Associates Inc., a mining engineering consulting firm, has agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty for a high-negligence violation in connection with the 2007 mine collapses that killed six miners and three rescue workers at Genwal Resources Inc.'s mine in Emery County, Utah.
The glass company receives the violations due to an investigation done after an employee was injured.
A Brooklyn outpost of the national pharmacy chain is cited for several violations.
Instead of sharing inspection responsibility with OSHA as it has the last year, the HIOSH will return to monitoring workplace safety in the manufacturing sector.
Several agencies are participating in the campaign, which takes place throughout September.
And the number of labs being seized this year is up significantly, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine reported.
The national paper and cardboard manufacturer faces $185,000 in safety violation fines from OSHA
Due to new legislation, workers and employers in Alberta may have to pay fines for violating safety protocol
The beet sugar company looks at tens of thousands of dollars in fines after employees were burned in separate incidents.
"This first-of-its-kind settlement will benefit all Americans by cutting emissions of ozone-depleting substances across Safeway's national supermarket chain," added Robert G. Dreher, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division.
Cal/OSHA and the state Labor Commissioner's Office are two of the agencies participating in it.