By DOL Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: SEVEN HILLS, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Cleveland office has opened an investigation after learning a 28-year-old employee of W.F. Hann & Sons was injured while installing sewer lines in an 8-foot trench in Seven Hills on Nov. 19, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Ranking Member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, led a bicameral group of 118 current and former Members...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Ohio - OSHA cited an Ohio company after a 33-year-old employee was crushed to death in June 2016 as he was digging soil out of the 12-foot trench in Washington Township, when the trench walls around him collapsed - burying him in thousands of pounds of dirt. Rescue workers recovered his body a few hours later.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led 13 Senators in introducing a bipartisan resolution in the Senate designating the week of Nov. 14, 2016, National Apprenticeship Week.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule updating its general industry Walking-Working Surfaces standards specific to slip, trip, and fall hazards. The rule also includes a new section under the general industry Personal Protective Equipment standards that establishes employer requirements for using personal fall protection systems.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) announced that she will continue serving as Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee when the 115th Congress convenes in January. Senator Murray was also elected today by the Democratic caucus to serve as Assistant Democratic Leader, the third-ranking position in Senate Democratic leadership.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Nov. 16, 2016 BOS 2016-176. PROVIDENCE, R. I. - A Wolcott, Connecticut, contractor repeatedly exposed its employees to falls of 18 feet while performing roofing work in Middletown, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. OSHA inspectors...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Flacks Painting & Waterproofing Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: PIONEER, Ohio - Once again, federal safety inspectors have found one of the nation's largest discount retailers putting workers and customers alike in danger by allowing emergency exit routes to be blocked.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: DENVER - An U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation found a Denver company violated federal law when it terminated an employee for insubordination after the worker reported safety concerns about a product being manufactured by the company.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Employer name: A&W Roofing LLC. A&W Roofing LLC. 8071 Parkman Mespo Road. 8071 Parkman Mespo Road. Middlefield, Ohio. Middlefield, Ohio. Inspection site: 156 La Belle Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Citations issued: On Nov. 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - A wood chipper and an Upstate New York employer's failure to provide safety training combined to make a 23-year-old worker's first day on the job his tragic last, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Federal investigators have cited a Jefferson City roofing contractor after a 47-year-old laborer collapsed on Aug. 17, 2016, and later died after being hospitalized with a core body temperature above 107 degrees.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health's OSH Professionals Pipeline Work Group. The meeting will be Nov. 15 in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI, Ohio - Just five weeks after a 28-year-old maintenance worker lost part of his right arm in an improperly guarded bread wrapping machine at the Cincinnati-based Klosterman Baking Co., federal safety inspectors investigating the injury found another worker exposed to the same hazard.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WEST POINT, Neb. - Working to clear crusted corn from the sides of a grain bin, a 52-year-old maintenance employee found himself engulfed in hundreds of pounds of grain, just minutes after the wall of corn collapsed and buried him. Rescued by emergency crews, he died of his injuries two days later.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Magna Seating doing business as Excelsior Springs Seating System. Magna Seating doing business as Excelsior Springs Seating System. Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Citations issued: Nov. 10, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: MORAINE, Ohio - Workers began making multiple complaints of unsafe working conditions at the Fuyao Glass America Inc. facility in Moraine not long after it opened in October 2015, leading to eight separate federal inspections and $226,937 in proposed penalties for the automotive glass supplier to plant brands such as Audi, Cadillac, Land Rover, Volvo and Volkswagen.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Santec Inc. Santec Inc. 1420 East Linden Ave. 1420 East Linden Ave. Linden, New Jersey. Linden, New Jersey. Citations issued: On Nov. 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the company citations for 11 serious and one other-than-serious...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: Twenty-five Republican members of the Senate and House education committees today urged the Department of Education to withdraw its proposed “supplement not supplant" regulation, saying it “violates the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress," and called on the department to instead work with Congress to implement the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act as it is written.
