The violations involve deficient lockout/tagout procedures, a lack of machine guarding, defective slings, poor housekeeping, a lack of protective footwear, and failing to have legible load ratings on slings.
The authority credits broadcasted highway advisory radio messages, signage, pavement and crosswalk markings, new traffic signals, and continued enforcement for the recent 12 percent decline.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association®'s new white paper suggesting directions for the agency's next five years is also an endorsement of its mandate.
OSHA initiated a December 2011 inspection following a referral from the Pennsylvania State Department of Health indicating that employees had high levels of lead in their blood.
A worker had several fingers amputated while operating an unguarded press break March 19 at the company’s Wooster, Ohio, plant. A second amputation injury occurred April 19 at the plant.
Each year, thousands of outdoor workers experience heat illness, which often manifests as heat exhaustion. If not quickly addressed, heat exhaustion can become heat stroke.
John C. Sheptor detailed his company's four-year recovery process from a devastating explosion to an AIHce audience June 20 and said their 18,000-item action plan will be finished this year.
A contract employee who was cleaning and sanitizing a machine used in the hummus manufacturing process was caught, pulled into the machine, and crushed to death between two rotating augers.
The company has been issued nine serious safety and health violations for failing to monitor workers' exposure to nickel, chromium, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid while cleaning electroplating tanks.
States that have them saved almost four times more per registered motorcycle than those without these laws, according to the study in CDC's MMWR.
The agency's chief, Ellen Widess, said the employer disregarded a city stop work order in January 2012, and a carpenter's death followed three days later.
A willful violation was issued for failing to provide required training to protect employees from incidents of violent behavior by inmates, including stabbings, bites, and other injuries.
Other ACGIH award winners to be honored next week including MSHA toxicologist Michelle Schaper, Ph.D., and Duke University Medical Center Professor Dr. John M. Dement, Ph.D., CIH.
The rule requires that railroads must establish Emergency Notification Systems (ENS) by installing clear and readable signs with toll-free telephone numbers at crossings.
OSHA issued citations following a Jan. 21 inspection referred by the Illinois Department of Public Health that found two gun range operators were exposed to airborne lead levels up to 12 times the permissible level.
OSHA found that emergency exit access from a receiving and storage area was obstructed by the storage of pallets containing merchandise and equipment.
OSHA's Little Rock Area Office initiated an inspection in December under the agency's Process Safety Management Covered Chemical Facilities National Emphasis Program.
The radiation doses from full-body scanners were below recommended standards and considerably lower than radiation levels in other X-ray procedures, such as a mammogram, according to the study.
OSHA has issued citations for two serious violations involving exposing workers to electrocution hazards when they are working in close proximity to energized parts without approved insulating safeguards and failing to discontinue the power line work in high winds.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives are jointly sponsoring the public meeting June 27 in Fort Worth, Texas.