By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Jasper Contractors Inc. Inspection site: 3524 Waverly Dock Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32223. Citations issued: Inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration observed employees performing roofing activities without fall protection at a residence...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2016
News Release: BOLINGBROOK, Ill. - A Bolingbrook metal stamping company exposed workers to amputations and other serious injuries repeatedly by allowing numerous machines to operate without safety guards.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - An air quality test and harnesses properly tethered to a lifeline for rescue might have prevented tragedy for three workers overcome by a lack of oxygen inside a rail tanker on Oct. 8, 2015 in New Orleans, federal workplace safety and health investigators have determined.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2016
News Release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s final “fiduciary" rule...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: Employer name: MTD Consumer Group. Inspection site: 979 South Conwell Ave., Willard, Ohio. Citations issued: March 23, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Toledo Area Office cited MTD Consumer Group for one willful, one serious and...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | April 5, 2016 BOS 2016-050
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: WINTERVILLE, Ga. - Every day, workers depend on their employers to keep them safe on the job. When an employer fails to address safety hazards, workers can suffer the consequences. On Sept. 23, 2015, a 33-year-old maintenance technician was the victim of a Georgia auto parts manufacturer's indifference toward safety.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - The life of a 39-year-old HVAC installer who fell through a roof skylight ended suddenly because his employer failed to put proper workplace protections in place, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that nominations are being accepted for members to serve on the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a field hearing in Lansing, Michigan, this week to explore how current regulations implementing federal wage and hour standards are impacting workplaces in the state and across the country. Witnesses offered a variety ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Land O Lakes Purina Feed LLC, doing business as Purina Animal Nutrition
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Shipbuilding Group recently signed an alliance focused on preventing worker exposure to electrical, ergonomic, struck-by and slip, trip and fall hazards in shipyards. The Shipbuilding Group is comprised of the National Shipbuilding Research Program and the Shipbuilders Council of America.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on House Republican subpoenas sent yesterday to universities, labs, and other organizations as part of a political investigation...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: IOLA, Kan. - As alarms sounded, hundreds of workers evacuated a candy manufacturing plant when an air-conditioning unit pipe failed and released about 22 pounds of anhydrous ammonia into the air throughout the Iola facility. No workers were injured in the incident which closed the plant for more than two hours.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: WACO, Texas - Federal inspectors found that the nation's largest chicken producer failed to use proper safety procedures that allowed a release of 79 pounds of anhydrous ammonia and endangered workers at its Waco facility on Sept. 28, 2015. Anhydrous ammonia is a dangerous chemical that can be fatal when inhaled and cause serious burns to the skin.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, The National Electrical Contractors Association Center Ohio Chapter, (NECA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union 683 and 1105 (IBEW)
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee applauded the Department of Education’s progress to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form for the 2017-18 school year by including two...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | March 29, 2016 BOS 2016-045
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: BEAVER, Pa. - Twenty-one-year-old Jacob Casher was still a "new guy" employed by a Beaver-based plumbing company when he left home for work in September 2015. He probably never imagined that, as he worked to install a sewer line 11-feet underground in Butler, it was to be the last day of his life.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U. S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Supreme Court issued a split ruling in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association affirming the lower court decision that protected the ability of public sector employees to bargain collectively and make their voices heard.
