The FDA announced it plans to ban three chemicals used in pizza boxes, as well as other food packaging.
While preliminary data show a higher-than-normal number of disasters, overall losses were below normal, in terms of economic and insured losses. The United States represented 60 percent of all global insured losses in 2015, according to the company.
"While record-low numbers have been achieved, we are mindful that things could change in a heartbeat if we let down our guard. There is still much more to be done to ensure that miners go home after every shift, safe and healthy," Assistant Secretary Joe Main said.
Health care staffers should not use the company's convenience packs and trays for any surgical procedure because adequate testing hasn't been completed, according to the agency.
There are 45 Skin Notation Profiles available on the NIOSH website.
Susquehannah Supply Company has been cited for willful violations, OSHA announced. Proposed penalties in the case total $140,000.
Researchers' production of 50 grams of plutonium-238 "marks the first demonstration in the United States since the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina ceased production in the late 1980s," DOE's announcement stated.
Thirty-three crew members were aboard the cargo ship when it went down Oct. 1 during Hurricane Joaquin near Crooked Island, Bahamas.
Citi Bike riders have taken 10 million trips in 2015, shattering 2014's previous record of 8,092,952 trips, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced.
"MSHA has been working hard to address the lessons learned from Sago and other mining tragedies to ensure that all miners can put in their shift and return home to their loved ones safe and healthy. We will never forget our fallen miners and, on this 10th anniversary of the Sago mine disaster, we pledge our continued efforts to eliminate these needless tragedies," Assistant Secretary Joseph A. Main said in a statement.
All Christmas trees can burn, but dry ones can be engulfed by flames significantly more quickly.
"The coming months will be absolutely critical," said Dr. Bruce Aylward, special representative of the director-general for the Ebola response at WHO. "WHO will maintain surveillance and outbreak response teams in the three countries through 2016."
The U.S. Coast Guard closed a portion of the Mississippi River near St. Louis to traffic Dec. 29 because of high water, with the river expected to crest there Dec. 30.
Employee John Altoft, 29, fell 30 feet from a scaffold in January 2012 after being struck by falling debris inside an industrial tower. Another worker was seriously injured.
An oil rig based in the North Sea, it capsized and sank Dec. 27, 1965, while being moved to a new location, killing 13 workers and injuring five others.
DMAC Construction LLC willfully exposed workers to falls up to 25 feet, according to OSHA.
Administrative Law Judge Carol A. Baumerich ruled that the OSH Act's provision authorizing the remedy of "other appropriate relief" allows the department's claim for enterprise-wide abatement at all locations where such violations exist to proceed to trial.