By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Evraz Inc. NA. Worksite: 1612 E. Abriendo Ave., Pueblo, Colorado 81004. Citations issued: July 15, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated Evraz Inc. NA, a steel making facility in Pueblo on Feb. 16, 2016, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: AVENTURA, Fla. - A federal workplace safety inspection of the Macy's department store in Aventura by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found employees at risk due to repeated and serious violations related to blocked exits, improper housekeeping and electric shock hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - In a letter sent today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), along with Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Richard Blumenthal...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: July 14, 2016 BOS 2016-112. Employer name: James T. Lynch Construction Co. Inc., 77 Lowell Junction Road, Andover, Massachusetts, a water and sewer line contractor. Inspection site: Stoneham Crossing Apartments construction site, 225 Fallon Road, Stoneham. Investigation findings: On May 11, 2016, inspectors...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the Expanded Access to Treatment and Recovery Act, legislation that would provide $920 million in funding to give states the tools and resources to invest in treatment of and recovery from prescription opioid and heroin abuse.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | July 14, 2016
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing with stakeholders to discuss ongoing implementation of the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the nation’s...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. Background: Materion Brush is a subsidiary of Materion Corp., a global manufacturer of advanced material solutions and services. The company serves customers in 50 countries and has operating, service centers and offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Materion Corp.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following statement after the Senate voted 90-2 to advance the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), legislation intended to help address the nation’s opioid epidemic.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: QUEENSBURY, N.Y. - Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited a Queensbury manufacturer for exposing employees to uncorrected explosion hazards, as well as recurring fire and fall hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with several of her colleagues on the Senate HELP Committee, held a campus safety roundtable to discuss improving prevention and response polices to combat...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An alarming series of tragic - and preventable - incidents in the greater Philadelphia area is prompting the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to call on the region's construction companies to ensure that their employees have and use proper equipment when required to protect them from work-related falls.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor today to emphasize the important role career and technical education, or CTE, plays in preparing students to compete in the workforce. As she explained, the bipartisan Strengthening Career and ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 25 Senators introduced a resolution calling for the termination of the Select Investigative Panel of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, established...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Employers names: Exterran Energy Solutions LP
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Nidi Tec Inc. Worksite: 591 East 56th Ave., Denver, Colorado 80216. Citations issued: July 6, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated an inspection of Nidi Tec Inc. on Jan. 29, 2016, after fractured sections...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: BIGLERVILLE, Pa. - For more than two months, a worker at a Pennsylvania pallet company repeatedly told her employer about health concerns related to mold exposure at a Biglerville plant. Despite confirming that the mold existed, IFCO Services N.A. Inc. did not remove the fungus and instead fired the woman less than three weeks after she complained again about her health concerns.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for June 2016...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) today praised House passage of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to fight the nation’s growing opioid epidemic. The agreement includes a legislative proposal championed by Reps. Barletta and ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Amerway Inc., an industrial soldering and metal brazing manufacturer
