The 2009 report from NOAA shows New Bedford, Mass. and Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska, remained on top for value and amount of fish landed. But the Louisiana and Mississippi ports that did well in 2009 won't fare as well this year.
OSHA began its inspection in March after receiving a complaint concerning ammonia odors, trip and struck-by hazards, cuts, and stabbing injuries. The investigation was expanded to all areas of the facility when inspectors observed a high number of safety hazards.
Some of the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries' operations were closed Tuesday because of the state's budget problems. But its 2011 workplace calendar, "Keep Washington Safe and Working," nevertheless will be available later this month.
Next week's presentation (Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. Eastern) is free to Transportation Research Board sponsors.
A single citation for obstructed exit routes alone amounted to $70,000 because the company was cited for similar conditions at other locations three years ago, making it a recurring hazard.
One of the eight "key findings" is the first action to control the well, routing the rising oil and gas to the mud gas separator system aboard the Deepwater Horizon platform. If they had been routed overboard instead, the accident might have been less severe, the investigative panel concluded.
Franklin Lobos, a trapped miner who once played professionally for various teams in northern Chile and was part of the national team in 1984, acted as the match commentator.
A new policy being launched by XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd goes beyond standard policies by offering coverage for government recalls.
The website's features include information about occupational skills that can be transferred from one job to another and links to local training programs.
The OSHA area director urged the company to evaluate all of its store locations for hazards after this latest filing.
Recommendation #6 from the Chemical Emergencies Work Group supports a bill using an approach to inherently safer technologies (IST) that the U.S. chemical industry opposes.
The EMS 2010 report, released Sept. 2, says the King County survival rate for witnessed cases of ventricular fibrillation of 46 percent makes it a national leader in that area.
An inspection’s sampling of water from various locations on the property confirmed the discharge of boron, arsenic, copper, ammonia, zinc, chromium, cobalt, manganese, nickel, selenium, aluminum, barium, cadmium, and 2-Butanone into the Weaver Branch tributary.
An Oct. 19 seminar and Oct. 20-21 symposium are in Kansas City, Mo., sponsored by the NFPA and its affiliated Fire Protection Research Foundation, will include a case study by Imperial Sugar's vice president of Manufacturing & Engineering.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is responding to a congressional mandate for a yearlong, $575,000 study by the National Academy of Sciences on how to reduce or eliminate the stockpile at Bayer CropScience's plant in Institute, W.Va.
The declaration was designed as a blueprint for constructing a global ethos of safety and health at work and to promote a preventative safety and health culture and assert the rights of employees to work in a safe environment.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration recently issued a safety alert and fatality update to the mining industry to draw renewed attention to deaths that have occurred this year in mines throughout the country.