The owner and the vice president of a Detroit-area physical therapy clinic were sentenced to 151 months and 108 months in prison, respectively, for their leading roles in a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced.
A series of studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published Dec. 14 in a supplement to the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases provide a unique look at the science that guided the Federal Government's response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association, in collaboration with American National Standards Institute, has released two new fundamental consensus standards which promote conformity among assessment systems. As an ANSI member and accredited standards developer, AIHA serves as the secretariat for three ANSI committees that develop occupational safety and health related standards.
No evidence of external corrosion, no physical indications of excavation damage, and no physical evidence suggesting a pre-existing leak has been found so far on the damaged pipe.
Two studies evaluated a synthetic derivative of the spice turmeric made by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
A U.S. district court judge has ruled in favor of the Department of Labor in a case against a Westminster, Calif., garment manufacturer and its owner, awarding a total of $887,554 to current and former workers (Case No. 2:10:-CV-02805 AHM (PJW)). Judge A. Howard Matz approved the department's request for a default judgment against Laundry Room Clothing Inc., owner Milton Kaneda and principal Sharon Kaneda after they failed to pay $380,824 in unpaid minimum wage and overtime compensation due to 115 low-wage workers.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's United States Fire Administration recently issued the 2009 Fire Estimate Summary Series which presents basic information on the size and status of the fire problem in the United States as depicted through data collected in USFA's National Fire Incident Reporting System.
Through a new safety initiative, MSHA is calling special attention to the potential dangers that shuttle cars and scoops in underground coal mines pose to miners. Between January 2000 and September 2010, nearly 800 miners have been injured and 16 killed in coal mine accidents involving shuttle cars and scoops. Three of those deaths occurred this year.
BP, Anadarko, MOEX, Triton, Transocean and QBE companies face Oil Pollution Act and Clean Water Act claims in the civil lawsuit.
The centerpiece of CSA is the Safety Measurement System (SMS), which will analyze all safety-based violations from inspections and crash data to determine a commercial motor carrier’s on-road performance.
The federal agency's new Strategic Framework on Multiple Chronic Conditions outlines a public/private collaboration to address the problem. Treating these people costs 66 percent of U.S. health care spending, according to HHS.
Following a visit to JetBlue’s headquarters in March, DOT reviewed complaints about the treatment of passengers with disabilities filed with the carrier and with DOT. The complaints revealed a number of violations of the requirement to provide enplaning and deplaning assistance.
Some have experience in Britain's offshore sector, two with oilfields in Alaska, and others in Norway, Australia, and South America.
The citation includes 14 alleged willful and one serious violation against WRR Environmental Services Co. of Eau Claire in connection with a June 29 explosion and fire at its plant, OSHA announced Tuesday.
The early signs on Dec. 10 were promising: The company raised its dividend by 10 percent.
OSHA began its inspection June 10 at the company's worksite and found employees operating a forklift without wearing a seat belt, as well as wet floors in passageways, aisles, and laundry work areas.
Evaluating the equipment, engineering controls, and grinding methods currently used for manual concrete surface grinding, a study published in JOEH says current methods to control dust aren't sufficiently protective.