North Central Power Co. Inc. faces fines of $199,800 as a result of the investigation, which meets the requirements of OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program.
Raynor Marketing, Ltd. has agreed to pay the civil penalty in a settlement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission while denying any violation or that the chairs are contain a hazardous defect.
The agency is keeping its crane operator safety training rule in force for now and adopting a new rule requiring workers to use fall protection when they are on a crane’s unguarded walking/working surface and more than 10 feet above a lower level.
The same properties that make engineered nanoparticles attractive for numerous applications--small as a virus, biologically and environmentally stabile, and water-soluble--also cause concern about their long-term impacts on environmental health and safety.
The March 2 meeting will help applicants prepare new drug applications or abbreviated new drug applications for fludeoxyglucose 18 injection, ammonia N 13 injection, and sodium fluoride F 18 injection.
The employee had complained to company management for being required to climb microwave towers, work in manholes, and enter asbestos-filled buildings without safety training or equipment while working at several San Diego military installations.
Proposed changes in design requirements in the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes are intended to minimize design-related flight crew errors.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted 4-1 on Jan. 31, 2011 to extend the stay of enforcement for testing and certification of lead content in children’s products (except for metal components of children’s metal jewelry) until Dec. 31, 2011.
The company's willful and repeat safety violations put McEntire's Roofing in OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program.
A NIOSH regulation for CBRN combination unit respirators is coming in FY2012 and is being timed to coincide with the 2013 edition of NFPA 1981.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced it will host a Feb. 17 "public listening session" to hear comments and "relevant new research" it should consider in a final hours of service rule. Trucking and shipping interests are firmly against the FMCSA proposal, however.
Housekeeping and buying the right mat for the task and location are essential parts of the solution for food service companies.
The proposal would eliminate the potential POV procedure, which involves written notification that a potential POV exists at a particular mining operation. No longer would mine operators receive advanced warning.
OSHA issued seven citations to The Acadia Hospital in Bangor but said its inspection found at least 115 instances between 2008 and 2010 where employees of the psychiatric hospital and clinic were assaulted by patients.
Southern states are notably absent from the list of 15 states (and Washington, D.C.) that have medical marijuana laws. The Feb. 9 webinar explores these laws' impact on employers' drug testing programs.
"OSHA will not allow companies to endanger the safety and health of its workers as a means to reduce business expenses," said Clyde Payne, OSHA's area director in Jackson, Miss.
The investigation found that the roof of the facility did not have the required strength and structural integrity for repair work to be performed.
This voluntary standard is the first national standard for PPE to be used by fire, police, and paramedics, officials said.
"Overexposure to respirable crystalline silica can cause a disabling, nonreversible and sometimes fatal lung disease," said Paula Dixon-Roderick, director of OSHA's Marlton Area Office in New Jersey.
The worker died after he was pulled into the running nip points of a paper roller while hand-feeding paper into the roller.