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Pipeline Fire Follows Impact by Tugboat, Barge

The blaze erupted after the vessels hit the pipeline in a Louisiana bayou.

EPA Ranks Cities with Most Energy Star Buildings

Los Angeles tops the list of cities with the most Energy Star buildings for the fifth year in a row.

NIH Trying to Raise Awareness of Lifelong Impact of Acute Kidney Injury

People taking OTC medicines for headaches, pain, fever, or colds should ask their pharmacist or physician whether they are safe to use. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs including ibuprofen and naproxen are NSAIDs that can harm the kidneys.



ICAO Adopts Safety Management Annex, Accident Victims Policy

The Montreal-based organization took both actions during its 2013 Safety Week.

MSHA's Main Says 2012 Likely Safest Year Ever for U.S. Mining

His speech at the annual West Virginia Mining Symposium mentioned how sharply the industry's fatality and injury rates have fallen since the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act was enacted in 1977.

Ohio Plastics Company Placed in OSHA Severe Violator Enforcement Program

Berry Plastics Corp. is facing $86,000 worth of fines after receiving two repeat and four serious violations.

Japan's New Natural Gas Development Makes World Headlines

For the first time, methane gas has been produced from undersea methane hydrate off the country’s coastline by Tokyo-based Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation.

Safest U.S. Railroad Year Ever

The Association of American Railroads confirms 2012 was the safest year on record for U.S. freight railroad companies' operations.

New Zealand Readying Safety Guide for Shark Cage Diving Operations

Maritime New Zealand has recently provided guidelines for safety in various kinds of adventure activities, such as jet boating and rafting, commercial kayaking and canoeing, and commercial white water boarding.

AED Article Wins Grand Neal Award

A March 2012 article published by IEEE Spectrum won one of the highest awards given for excellence in business-to-business media on March 12.

CSB May Judge API Fatigue Guideline Insufficient

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has scheduled an April 24 meeting in Washington, D.C., to consider its staff's recommendation to find that RP 755, a fatigue prevention guideline for refining and petrochemical industries, doesn't satisfy the board's recommendation following the 2005 BP refinery explosion in Texas City, Texas.

EPA Fines Wyoming Ethanol $49,000 for Violations

The company was cited for risk management planning violations and failure to report hazardous chemicals used at the facility.

Massachusetts Governor Signs Social Worker Safety Bill

The new law requires direct services providers that receive funding from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services to provide workplace violence prevention and crisis response plans.

OSHA Cites Poultry Processor After Grisly Fatality

A worker died when he slipped and fell into an unguarded screw conveyor while cleaning it last September in the plant in Moselle, Miss. Now, OSHA has assessed 37 serious violations against Southern Hens Inc.

Wolf Creek Dam Project Nearly Done

The final pour of concrete for a barrier wall in the dam in Jamestown, Ky., has been done, The Tennessean reported. It is intended to prevent a breach that would have triggered catastrophic flooding downstream, including in Nashville.

No Reliable Test for 'Latex-Free' Claims: FDA

The agency has issued a draft guidance document urging manufacturers that want to indicate natural rubber latex was not used as a material instead use the statement on the product label, "not made with natural rubber latex."

286,000 Garlic Slicers Recalled

The Pampered Chef of Addison, Ill., is recalling them because the blade can detach and poses a laceration hazard.

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