By DOL Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a meeting of the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health on Sept. 8, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2016
News Release: Employer name: D.R. Horton Inc. Garcia Carpentry LLC. Inspection site: The Meadows at Heath Brook, 4904 SW 58th Place, Ocala, Florida 34474. Citations issued: OSHA issued citations to the employers on Aug. 15, 2016. Investigation findings: Inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), along with Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN), issued the following joint statement today in response to the administration’s final blacklisting regulation and guidance...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council’s finalization of the rules implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, effective Oct. 25, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana residents - emergency workers, employers and the public - recovering from the impact of the recent floods should be aware of the hazards they may encounter and take necessary steps to stay safe, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 23, 2016
News Release: Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) and Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following joint statement today after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a decision in Columbia University regarding unionization of graduate students...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health will hold a meeting of the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee on Sept. 7-9, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is accepting nominations for members to serve on the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 18, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Liqui-Box Corporation, Ashland, Ohio
By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Employer name: U.S. Postal Service LLC, doing business as Silver Spring MPO Carr Annex Hotel
By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Belleville, Ill. - Illinois contractor Robert Barringer III's long history of putting his workers in danger of debilitating or fatal falls at his company's job sites continues, this time at a residential home under construction in Glen Carbon.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Employer name: National Manufacturing Co. Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Aug. 16, 2016 BOS-2016-131. Employer name: Oprandy's Fire & Safety Equipment Inc. 49 Brookline Ave. Middletown, New York. The company sells installs and services fire extinguishers and suppression equipment. Inspection site: 49 Brookline Ave., Middletown, New York. What prompted OSHA's inspection: ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Labor is launching a new pilot process in its Western region. The "Expedited Case Processing Pilot" allows a complainant covered by certain statutes to ask the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to cease its investigation and issue findings for the department's Office of Administrative Law Judges to consider.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A gruesome employee injury led federal workplace safety inspectors to discover the nation's largest meat and poultry processor endangered workers by exposing them to amputation hazards, high levels of carbon dioxide and peracetic acid without providing personal protective equipment.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 15, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Furia Roofing Co. Inc., 2 Monhegan St., Clifton, New Jersey
By DOL Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, Ill. - For the second time in two years, federal safety inspectors found workers risking amputations and other serious injuries as they fed parts by hand into an unguarded mechanical press brake at an Illinois trailer manufacturing plant. They also found the company failed to protect welders and other employees from harmful ray emissions during welding operations.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Mattocks Five Inc., doing business as Albion Mill
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Liberty Master, Inc., 903 Curtis Lane, Scranton, Pennsylvania
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: ANDOVER, Mass. - Dorchester-based contractor Roof Kings LLC exposed employees to life-threatening falls - more than 45 feet off the ground - over a three-day period as they worked at a Haverhill church, federal workplace safety and health inspectors found.
