By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established a revised National Emphasis Program (NEP) to identify and reduce or eliminate worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) in general industry, maritime, and construction. The...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: DENVER, CO - The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado has ordered Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) to pay $696,173 in lost back and future wages to a former employee who reported track defects, bringing the total paid to the whistleblower to more than $1.74 million.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: CAMP HILL, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Cleveland Brothers Inc. - doing business as CB HYMAC - for exposing workers to hexavalent chromium fumes and other safety hazards at the company's shop in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. OSHA cited...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: NAPLES, FL - After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Fort Myers Division, has sentenced Stalin Rene Barahona - former owner of the now-dissolved SB Framing Services Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: CONCORD, NH - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Quartz and Stone Creations of New Hampshire LLC for crushing and other hazards following an employee fatality on July 19, 2019. OSHA cited the Northwood, New Hampshire, stone products manufacturer for 12 serious and six other-than-serious violations, which faces a total of $87,516 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: HOOVER, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited two Alabama contractors - OLA Inc. and Calloway Inc. - for exposing employees to excavation hazards after two workers suffered fatal injuries in a trench collapse on a residential project in Hoover, Alabama. The contractors face $88,482 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has determined that the Dearborn Heights School District violated whistleblower statutes by unjustly disciplining, publicly discrediting and terminating an employee who reported unsafe working conditions...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), sent a third letter to Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee Chairwoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL), reiterating their request ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently signed a two-year alliance with the Maine Department of Labor, Workplace Safety and Health Division (SafetyWorks!), and the Maine School of Masonry to promote worker safety in the masonry industry.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s announcement of guidelines for states seeking to convert Medicaid to block grants-a...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: BALA CYNWYD, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Webb Contractor Corp. for exposing employees to fall hazards at three separate worksites in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, area. The roofing contractor, based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, faces $605,371 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing on maternal and infant health...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and 36 Democratic Senators in sending a letter demanding that President Trump retract statements he made last week threatening to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC), a member of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing on maternal and infant health...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: HARMONY, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Metarko Excavating LLC for exposing employees to trenching hazards at a Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, worksite. The company faces $59,311 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO, FL- In a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Shooting Gallery Range Inc. - a shooting range based in Orlando, Florida - has agreed to pay an employee $30,000 in back wages and compensatory damages. The settlement is reflected in a U.S. District Court consent judgment issued Jan. 24, 2020.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and 30 of her Democratic Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Secretary Alex Azar at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting updates...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: DELAIR, NJ - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Aluminum Shapes LLC for workplace safety and health hazards after a crane operator was injured in August 2019 at the aluminum manufacturer’s Delair, New Jersey, foundry. The company faces $169,524 in penalties for these violations.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, respectively, today released the following statement after holding an all-senator briefing with top administration health officials regarding the novel coronavirus outbreak that was first detected in Wuhan, China...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee-and the highest ranking woman in the Senate-released a video statement regarding the 47th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which affirmed the constitutional right to a safe, legal abortion.
