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Murray Statement on Obama Administration Proposals to Combat Opioid Abuse

By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2016

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the President’s announcement of budget proposals to tackle prescription drug abuse and heroin use.

OSHA certifies New Jersey occupational safety and health plan for state and local government workers

By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2016

News Release: Contact: Office of Communications. Phone: 202-693-1999. TRENTON - The U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently certified New Jersey's State Plan for protecting the safety and health of state and local government workers. The New Jersey Public Employees Occupational...

OSHA to hold public stakeholder meeting on its draft updated Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines

By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2016

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration invites interested parties to attend a day-long roundtable discussion on the agency's draft updated Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines. The meeting is set for Thursday, March 10, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the U.S. Department of Labor's Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C.

OSHA, Industrial Truck Association renew alliance to reduce hazards associated with powered industrial trucks

By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2016

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently renewed its alliance with the Industrial Truck Association to reduce worker injuries and fatalities when using powered industrial trucks. During the five-year agreement, the alliance will focus on tip-over and struck-by hazards.

OSHA extends public comment period for updatedSafety and Health Program Management Guidelines

By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2016

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is extending the public comment period on an updated version of its voluntary Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines.

OSHA's regional emphasis focuses on reducing illness, injury at high-hazard manufacturing facilities in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri

By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2016

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The increased likelihood that workers in high-hazard manufacturing industries - such as food, furniture, fabricated metal, nonmetallic mineral, machinery and computer products - will be injured on the job is leading federal safety and health inspectors in three Midwestern states to increase its focus on industry outreach and inspections to reduce injury and illness rates.

Dollar General store endangers workers by blocking exit routes with trash

By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2016

News Release: O'FALLON, Mo. - Federal safety inspectors found a 5-foot high, 15-foot long pile of trash between employees at a Missouri Dollar General store and an emergency exit, one of nine safety violations that put workers at the O'Fallon location at risk.

Worker severely injured in 40-foot fall from crane at TimkenSteel

By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2016

News Release: CANTON, Ohio - A 39-year-old worker suffered multiple broken bones after he fell more than 40 feet while conducting maintenance on a crane at TimkenSteel's Faircrest Plant. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found the company failed to provide the worker adequate fall protection. The Aug. 7, 2015, injury was the second life-threatening injury at a TimkenSteel plant since May 2015.

OSHA seeks nominations for membership on the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health

By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2016

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that the agency is accepting nominations for six positions on the 12-member National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health.

*** MEDIA ADVISORY *** NEXT WEEK: Protecting Access to Retirement Advice and Examining School Choice Efforts

By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2016

News Release: The House Committee Education and the Workforce next week will consider legislation to strengthen the retirement security of working Americans and hold a hearing to examine school choice efforts at the state and local levels.

OSHA cites auto parts manufacturer for willfully exposing workers to amputations, other hazards at Alabama facility

By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2016

News Release: Employer: Daeil USA Corp. Inspection site: 1135 Towel Ave., Valley, Alabama 36854. Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on Jan. 28 for one willful, five repeated, 10 serious and one other-than-serious safety violation.

OSHA cites Green Bay packaging company for multiple safety hazards

By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2016

News Release: Employer name: Services Plus Inc. Inspection site: 1001 Discovery Road, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Citations received: Jan. 27, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Appleton Area Office cited the Services Plus Inc., a Green Bay packaging...

OSHA cites employer for exposing Katy, Texas workers to trenching hazards

By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2016

News Release: Employer name: Hurtado Construction Co., Richmond, Texas

GENERIC DRUG ACCESS: Murray Calls for Improved Patient Access to Affordable Treatments

By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2016

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered opening remarks at a hearing on Accelerating Patient Access to Generic Drugs. Senator Murray emphasized the importance of helping patients get safe, affordable, high-quality treatments.

OSHA cites Colorado mattress spring manufacturer with willful, serious citations following worker injury at its Colorado Springs plant

By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2016

News Release: Employer name: L&P Springs Manufacturing LLC, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Seitz Tech LLC exposes employees to electrical, fire hazards again

By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2016

News Release: Employer name: Seitz Tech LLC., 1041 Hickory Hill Road, Oxford, Pennsylvania

Worker deglazing bathtub in public housing complex died of acute exposure to methylene chloride, a toxic chemical found in paint stripper

By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2016

News Release: CLEVELAND, Ohio - The death of a 30-year-old worker from acute methylene chloride exposure could have been avoided if his employer had protected him properly from dangerous exposure to the toxin in the paint remover he used to deglaze a bathtub in a Cuyahoga County public housing complex, federal investigators determined.