By DOL Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: VAN BUREN, Mo - In an emergency, a blocked exit can be the difference between life and death for employees and customer alike. Yet, Dollar General - one of the nation's largest discount retailers - continues to ignore federal workplace safety inspectors who have found repeated instances where the company allows stacked merchandise to block exit routes.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Employers' name: Austin Constructors LLC and Muniz Concrete and Contracting Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: LANSING, Ill. - For a Joliet construction contractor in business more than 50 years, the dangers of working in an unprotected trench should be nothing new. Yet, the company's history of allowing employees to work in unsafe trenches continues - this time to excavate utility lines 7-feet deep in June 2016 at a Torrence Avenue job site.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: CEDARBURG, Wis. - As he hand-polished a 40-inch long metal cylinder, a 36-year-old lathe operator became entangled in the machine's operating spindle and suffered injuries that led to his death two days later.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Keystone Foods. Inspection site(s): 57 Melvin Clark Road, Bakerhill, Alabama 36027. Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to Keystone Foods on Sept. 6, 2016, for 12 serious safety violations. Investigation findings: ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: PERRYSBURG, Ohio - For the second time in five months, federal inspectors have cited an Indiana framing contractor for failing to protect workers from fall hazards on residential construction sites. Preventable falls account for nearly 40 percent of all deaths in the construction industry.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Sept. 3, 2016
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for August 2016...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) issued the following joint statement in response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ final rule revising the Head Start Program Performance Standards...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited York Metal Toll Processing Inc. for exposing employees to uncorrected electrical, crushing and respiratory hazards, as well as recurring amputation hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Health Canada, through the Regulatory Cooperation Council, have jointly developed a 2016-2017 Workplace Chemicals Work Plan. The purpose of the work plan is to ensure that current and future requirements for classifying and communicating the hazards of workplace chemicals will be acceptable in the United States and Canada without reducing worker safety.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels has selected Dean McKenzie as the new director of the agency's Directorate of Construction. McKenzie served as director of OSHA's Office of Construction Services from 2012-2013, then became the deputy director in 2013, and has been the acting director since January of this year.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Rogero & Williams Roofing Contractors Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Employer name: AJ New Construction and Repair Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s comprehensive revision of the Head Start Program Performance Standards.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Travis Clark, director of OSHA's Corpus Christi Area Office signs alliance renewals with Consul of Mexico Juan Carlos Cué Vega in Brownsville, Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Concerned because they were experiencing sore throats, headaches and difficulty with breathing, employees of Quest Diagnostic Corp.'s Ameripath diagnostic laboratory in Shelton filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The agency's Bridgeport Area Office began an inspection on March 6, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement today regarding the Department of Education's unprecedented and unlawful “supplement, not supplant" regulatory proposal...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education announced the proposed rule for Title I spending under the Every Student Succeeds Act...
