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OSHA kicks off 'Hear and Now - Noise Safety Challenge'

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Labor is challenging inventors and entrepreneurs to help develop a technological solution to workplace noise exposure and related hearing loss.


Name change or not, Nebraska builder continues his callous disregard forprotecting workers from falls, the leading cause of construction worker's deaths

News Release: ELKHORN, Neb. - Rich Tiller might have changed his company's name, but the Nebraska construction company owner has not changed his callous attitude toward his employees' safety and well-being.


OSHA cites Missouri machine shop after welder electrocuted, dies

News Release: MARTHASVILLE, Mo. - Federal investigators found the electrocution death of a 43-year-old welder could have been prevented if his employer had de-energized conductors and followed electrical safe work practices at its Missouri machine shop.


OSHA fines Lamoure grain company $104K for violationsafter worker caught in sweep auger, injured

News Release: FREDONIA, N.D. - An investigation into a 36-year-old worker's injuries at a North Dakota grain facility found multiple violations of federal safety standards for grain handling and confined space entry, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.


Murray, Senate Dems: More to Do to Further Strengthen Education Dept. Rule For Debt Relief in Higher Education

News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 19 Senators sent a letter to the Department of Education (“the Department") to express support for the proposed “borrower defense" rule and to suggest a number of...


OSHA finds hazards at two Kansas Dollar General stores;retailer cited for more than 100 safety violations at its stores nationwide

News Release: WICHITA, Kan. - Federal safety inspectors have again found blocked exits and other hazards at stores operated by national discount retailer, Dollar General - this time in Wichita and Clay Center.


Roofing company did not provide adequate fall protection to worker who died after 33-foot fall at Watertown Community Center project

News Release: WATERTOWN, S.D. - Federal investigators found a 24-year-old roofing worker, who fell more than 33 feet to his death lacked an adequate fall protection system and his employer failed to train him to work safely at heights.






OSHA cites Georgia Swifty Car Wash after worker suffers amputation

News Release: Employer name: Swifty Athens LLC, doing business as Swifty Car Wash LLC



Worker's death leads OSHA to fine Nucor-Yamato Steel for poor loading operations at Arkansas steel mill

News Release: Employer name: Nucor-Yamato Steel Inc. Location: 5929 E. State Highway 18, Blytheville, Arkansas 72315. Citations issued: July 29, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Little Rock issued citations for eight serious violations to...



Worker falls 22 feet to death, 4 months after OSHA cites employer for failing to protect workers on the same job site

News Release: ADDISON, Ill. - Four months after federal safety investigators cited his employer for failing to provide workers with fall protection at a United Parcel Service facility in Addison, a 42-year-old employee of Material Handling Systems/MHS Technical Services, fell 22 feet to his death at the same site.


OSHA fines KWS Manufacturing Co. for repeat, serious violations

News Release: Employer name: KWS Manufacturing Company Ltd.


Wisconsin shipyard faces nearly $1.4M in OSHA penalties for exposing workers to lead, and other hazards while retrofitting vessel

News Release: SUPERIOR, Wis. - Federal health inspectors found Fraser Shipyards Inc. overexposed workers to lead during the retrofitting of a ship's engine room. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's sampling results determined 14 workers had lead levels up to 20 times the exposure limit. The agency also found workers exposed to other heavy metals.