OSHA has proposed $72,800 in fines against Cleveland Tank & Supply Inc., with 19 serious health and safety violations cited.
The state's new plan works to incorporate the highway safety components of engineering, enforcement, education, and emergency response in five emphasis areas.
If owner Daina Shipping Company and its insurer, The Swedish Club, decide to apply for and receive a resource consent to leave part of the wreck in place, Daina will make an additional $10.4 million payment.
Eighteen accident investigators and special investigators are taking a two-week course on conducting accident investigations.
Businesses in the United Kingdom are now required to pay inspectors' fees when under investigation for safety violations.
Minneapolis-based Nash Finch, described as the second-largest publicly traded U.S. wholesale food distributor, is paying that amount in back wages to 84 women rejected for entry-level order selector jobs at a distribution facility in Lumberton, N.C.
After a company in Wisconsin failed to follow safety guidelines when repairing a shredder, it received 2 willful violations.
The $1.15 million settlement resolves the Labor Department's civil case with the operators, Murray Energy Corp. subsidiaries Genwal Resources Inc. and Andalex Resources Inc., for violations revealed by the August 2007 mine collapse.
Commerce, Calif.-based 99 Cents Only Stores Texas Inc. faces 19 serious violations in connection with its Houston distribution center.
Slapped with $68,500 in violations, an Ohio company failed to sufficiently protect workers from cave-ins.
After 18 employees become sick, the Pennsylvania warehouse was evacuated. All are expected to recover.
Signed Sept. 21 by Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie and OSHA Regional Administrator Ken Nishiyama Atha, the pact includes benchmarks for the state agency, including increasing state inspections.
OSHA announced its Baton Rouge Area Office conducted the investigation that resulted in 11 violations assessed against Westlake Vinyls Co. LP of Geismar, La.
OSHA has fined a paint company $138,600 for 26 violations.
A company in Wisconsin was fined $108,500 for failing to provide adequate protection in trenches.
A contractor in New York receives a citation alleging seven violations, including one classified as willful.
ADOSH finds fault with US Airways after a baggage handler died in a conveyor belt accident.
Omega Protein of Moss Point, Miss. faces more than $79,000 in fines following the death of an employee in April.
OSHA orders Dana Holding Corp. to pay an employee turned whistleblower nearly $275,000 in lost wages and compensation.
Four people, including Rachel Weintraub, director of Product Safety and senior counsel for the Consumer Federation of America, received them last week.