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News Release: FRANKLIN, Ohio - A federal workplace safety and health inspection found workers exposed to the risks of amputation, hearing loss and respiratory damage at A&B Foundry & Machining Inc. due to same hazards identified by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration at the Franklin foundry in 2012.

Towing parts manufacturer continues to expose workers to machine, electrical hazards at Mentor manufacturing facility

News Release: View Citations here. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Cleveland...

SENATE DEMS: TIME TO CLOSE FOR-PROFIT COLLEGE LOOPHOLE IMPACTING SERVICEMEMBERS, VETERANS AND TAXPAYERS

News Release: Dear Secretary King: We write today to urge you to better protect our military and veteran students and their hard-earned educational benefits by strengthening the 90/10 rule. As we saw with the collapse of Corinthian Colleges, when schools over-rely on taxpayer dollars, efforts to hold those institutions...

More than $50K in OSHA fines for Fort Worth steel fabricator

News Release: Employer name: K-T Galvanizing Company Inc.

A Better Way to Fix Health Care

News Release: House Republicans today unveiled a plan to replace Obamacare. It is our vision for a Confident America in which every American has access to quality, affordable health care. This is the fifth plank of A Better Way, a bold agenda to tackle some of our country’s biggest challenges.

Despite extensive violation history, OSHA finds Dollar General continues to expose workers to safety hazards at Shamokin, Pennsylvania, store

News Release: Employer name: DOLGENCORP LLC, doing business as Dollar General Store #398

Committee Advances Bipartisan Bills to Help More Americans Pursue Higher Education

News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved a number of bipartisan bills that will help strengthen higher education for students, parents, and taxpayers. The legislative proposals-all approved by voice vote-include measures to empower students ...

Non-GMO food additive manufacturer faces $180K in finesafter explosion, fire injures 4 workers at Ohio facility

News Release: NEWARK, Ohio - A Newark food additive manufacturer's failure to handle hazardous materials and respond properly to an emergency led to an explosion that injured four workers, including two contractors who scaled an 8-foot security fence topped with triple-strand barbed wire to escape the fireball.

OSHA fines grain elevator company for willfully, repeatedly exposing workers to potentially fatal grain engulfment hazards

News Release: Employer name: High Country Elevators Inc.

OSHA finds cold storage company lacked proper procedures for use of potentially dangerous ammonia

News Release: View Citations here. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Americold owns and operates more than 175 temperature-controlled warehouses worldwide providing warehousing and logistics services to the food industry. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, ...

OSHA finds absence of proper safety guards led two workers to suffer amputation injuries at Piedmont food manufacturer

News Release: PIEDMONT, Mo. - Twice in less than a month, two workers at an Ajinomoto Windsor Inc. facility suffered amputation injuries because their employer failed to install adequate safety guards to keep operator's hands out of machine danger zones, inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found. The agency cited the food manufacturer for similar machine hazards at the Piedmont facility in 2013.

Union City contractor allowed dangerous hazards that ledto worker's fatal fall while removing siding at Bayonne home

News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | June 21, 2016

Removing Barriers to Lower Health Care Costs for Workers & Small Businesses

News Release: Part of a broader effort to provide Americans with greater access, choice, and flexibility in health care, the House today passed the Small Business Health Care Relief Act (H.R. 5447 ), bipartisan legislation that will restore the ability of small businesses to offer their employees Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) without being penalized.

Employees exposed to widespread, potentially fatal electrical,fall hazards at Williamsburg building site

News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | June 21, 2016 BOS-2016-097

Chautauqua County manufacturer fails to correct fall hazard, allows recurring electrical hazard; faces OSHA fines of $87K

News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | June 20, 2016 BOS-2016-096

THIS WEDNESDAY: Committee to Take Steps to Improve Higher Education

News Release: Members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce today introduced several bipartisan bills that will help strengthen higher education for students and taxpayers. The legislative proposals will help simplify and improve the student financial aid process, as well as enhance existing support and accountability for institutions serving minority students.

OSHA cites Wegmans Food Market's Rochester bakery for repeat safetyviolations after operating conveyor injures employee's arm

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - A simple task for an employee at Wegmans Food Market Inc.'s commercial bakery in Rochester instead resulted in a needless and severe injury. As the worker cleaned an operating conveyor belt and roller on Dec. 16, 2015, her hand was caught between the belt and the roller and the machine pulled it in. She sustained broken bones in her hand and arm.

Follow-up OSHA inspection finds workplace safety problems persist at Georgia pipe fabricator nearly $76K in fines proposed