About 10,000 inspectors in the United States, Canada, and Mexico have conducted safety inspections of trucks and buses for three days -– about 14 inspections per minute, according to the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.
OSHA will be investigating the incident immediately. The building next door to a thrift shop where all six bodies were recovered was being demolished.
After a worker was killed by a broken band saw blade in December, a Texas sawmill has been cited for 17 citations safety violations.
Leaders of the two federal agencies have signed a memorandum of agreement spelling out how they will inspect and oversee systems on mobile offshore drilling units.
Re-insulating or retrofitting older buildings can expose workers to a variety of respiratory hazards.
Director Jim Watson also announced safety stand-downs will take place in each agency region this month, as part of National Safety Month.
NIOSH's Director Dr. John Howard said the new center will encourage collaboration of the agency's scientists with insurers and other organizations.
"Straight Talk About Nail Gun Safety," available in English and Spanish versions, explains the basics about nail gun triggers' operation and the typical hazards workers who use the devices will encounter.
However, property crimes and arson offenses declined, according to the agency's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, released June 3.
Twenty-eight workers were killed in a cave-in at the gold and copper mine last month.
The late senator from New Jersey worked with another member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, conservative Republican David Vitter, on the Chemical Safety Improvement Act, introduced just two weeks ago.
According to a Chinese newspaper, only one door at the facility was unlocked.
Safety Advisory 2013-04 reemphasizes the importance of clear, precise procedures when grade crossing warning systems and wayside signal systems are out of service for inspection, maintenance, or repair.
This age group is at a higher fire risk than the rest of the population, and high-frequency smoke alarms in many existing homes are a problem, it says.
Its May 28 announcement of a fire safety forum for them came in response to the inquest on the Lakanal House fire that killed six people in Jul y 2009.
In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Kevin Davis, director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, ask the state's residents to have supplies on hand.
The May 31 fire was the deadliest single incident in the long history of the Houston Fire Department.