The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's new advisory bulletin for owners and operators of gas and hazardous liquid pipelines says the Yellowstone River spill that began July 1 shows the risks.
Sales in each segment -- North America, Europe, and international -- rose by 18 percent, 33 percent, and 28 percent, respectively, year-over-year.
DOE issued a $243,750 civil penalty to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions after a worker received a hand puncture from a sharp object contaminated with plutonium-238.
Associated General Contractors of America said $2.5 billion in airport construction contracts are affected by Congress' failure to pass a reauthorization measure for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The company hopes its Joint Plan of Reorganization to emerge from a decade in bankruptcy will be approved soon, and that its total asbestos-related liability will be $1.7 billion or less.
The study will involve 960 delivery workers at 72 wholesale/retail trade establishments to see whether using stair-climbing, powered hand trucks and powered truck lift gates reduces their back pain and upper extremity pain.
“The hazards of working in confined spaces are well-documented and this is a classic example of the kind of injury that occurs when employers fail to adequately protect their employees,” said Cal/OSHA Chief Ellen Widess.
An expert panel is overseeing the work to produce the 4th edition of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria guideline next year. A webcast Aug. 3 is an opportunity for more stakeholders to comment.
During an inspection opened on March 31, OSHA found Blue Heron employees working in an unprotected excavation greater than 5 feet in depth.
NIOSH's Dr. John Howard and OSHA's Dr. David Michaels are among the speakers at the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health's Sept. 16 conference in New York City.
NRC published an amendment to its fitness-for-duty rule, making it effective Aug. 22.
More than a million of these inaccurate blood tests are carried out annually to diagnose active TB, often at great financial cost to patients.
Proposed penalties total $169,400 following an inspection that began Jan. 10.
A new proposed rule from the Food Safety and Inspection Service would require labels clearly telling consumers when a raw meat or poultry product contains added solution.
They were sold at Home Depot stores from February 2010 through June 2011, according to the CPSC recall announcement.
In an observational study, a nationally representative group of 6,044 adults over age 50 rated their optimism levels on a 16-point scale. Each point increase in optimism corresponded to a 9 percent decrease in acute stroke risk over a two-year follow-up period.
The July 28 meeting in Rockville, Md., to discuss recommendations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Japan Task Force gives Public Citizen and others the chance to say they don't go far enough.