The U.S. Department of Energy's 10th update since Hurricane Sandy made landfall shows 3.6 million customers still without electricity as of 9 am EDT Nov. 2, down from 4.4 million the day before.
U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said he will introduce his legislation Nov. 2.
State transportation officials drill employees on response procedure for icy, snowy conditions.
The alert cites a September 2012 fatality that is under investigation.
TDY Industries will pay the EPA $1.44 million for water contamination.
Ameridose LLC is a sister company to the New England Compouding Center (NECC), which produced contaminated injectable steroid drugs that have been linked to 29 deaths and 377 cases thus far.
Published jointly Oct. 29 by the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization, it contains maps, tables, and graphs showing links between health and climate around the world.
OSHA is about to begin enforcing an interpretation of 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13), which requires workers 6 feet or more above lower levels to be protected by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or alternative fall protection measures allowed by other provisions of 29 CFR 1926.501(b) for particular types of work.
Coal mine inspections for September produce 150 citations.
The city's Department of Buildings and its Department of Investigation announced the arrests Oct. 25 and said one of the people arrested is a construction company owner charged with possessing 32 fraudulent scaffold certification cards he had made.
On Oct. 30, the energy company announced its profit for the third quarter was $5.2 billion, and crews extinguished a fire at its Texas City refinery, which Marathon Petroleum Corp. plans to buy.
Following the largest refinery fire in Singapore's history, the oil giant has received $80,000 in fines.
Moreover, 20 percent of people said in the survey they are concerned for their physical safety in the workplace.
Writing in the Fall 2012 issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health, Dean Michael J. Klag calls for the same kind of collaboration as has been used to reduce annual traffic deaths significantly.
A trio of NIOSH employees discussed the enormous cost of arthritis on the agency's Science Blog. They report its prevalence is expected to rise to 25 percent of the adult population by 2030.
NFPA announced Oct. 26 that the new high was reached by the addition of Vansant Mobile Home Park #2 in Cullman County, Ala.
The Form 483 posted by the agency covers five October inspections of the Framingham, Mass., compounding pharmacy.