By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Tallahatchie Lumber and Mat Co. Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: WAUKESHA, Wis. - A 52-year-old maintenance manager died of head and neck injuries after being struck by a forklift at metal recycling facility in Waukesha. Working without head protection, the man was hoisting an oxygen cylinder onto the forklift when the accident occurred.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: OAKWOOD, Ga. - In separate incidents less than two weeks apart, two employees sustained disabling injuries at Primex Plastics Corp. in Oakwood. Both workers had their middle and ring fingers amputated as they removed material jammed in shearing machines that cut plastic.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: Jacob Prado Gonzalez (left) consul general for the Mexican Consulate in El Paso, Texas, signs alliance renewal with Diego Alvarado Jr. (right) area director in El Paso for the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - For the second time in two years, a U.S. and international home decor manufacturer and distributor has shown that it lags in employee safety.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2015
News Release: R. Casey Perkins (left) area director in Austin for the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration signs alliance with Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez (right) consul general for the Mexican Consulate in Austin.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 30, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement recognizing the 125th anniversary of the Morrill Act of 1890, which led to the creation of 19 Historically Black Federal land-grant educational institutions.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: LANCASTER, Ohio - Two years after agreeing to reduce workers' exposure to lead and cadmium, a Lancaster battery recycling facility continues to expose workers to dangerously high airborne concentrations of the metals - a leading cause of workplace illness - which can cause long-term damage to the central nervous, urinary, blood and reproductive systems.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: JACKSON, Mo. - When U.S. Department of Labor inspectors entered a baby diaper recycling facility, they were investigating how a 54-year-old team leader had four fingers amputated in a recycling machine. Inside the Wahlco-D.W. Tool Inc. facility, Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found conditions ripe for another tragedy: Extensive combustible dust and potential sources of ignition could have caused an explosion and fire at the plant.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision involving Browning-Ferris Industries.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Aug. 27, 2015 BOS 2015-155. Date of action: Aug. 24, 2015. Type of action: Judgment. Name of defendant: Lessard Roofing & Siding Inc., Lessard Brothers Construction Inc., and their successors and/or alter egos. Background: Lessard Roofing & Siding Inc. and Lessard Brothers Construction Inc., both located...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Latite Roofing and Sheet Metal LLC, Pompano Beach, Florida 33069
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following joint statement today after the National Labor Relations Board released a partisan decision in Browning-Ferris Industries that overturns established labor policy and will disrupt the operations of small businesses across the country...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Employer name: H & S Manufacturing Co. Inc., Marshfield, Wisconsin
By DOL Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Investigation findings: One serious violation was issued for exposing workers to excessive heat following an investigation into the death of a 49-year-old employee on June 9. The worker was packing and loading boxes in a moving truck on a day when the heat index reached 112 degrees Fahrenheit. He suffered heat stroke and died later that same day at a local hospital. He had been employed by the company for more than eight years.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Employer name: American Air Filter Co. Inc., doing business as AAF International
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Date of action: Aug. 6, 2015
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold the inaugural meeting of the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) on Sept. 9, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 21, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to uphold the expansion of minimum wage and overtime protections to home care professionals.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold two field hearings next week to examine efforts by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that would dramatically alter the way franchise businesses operate.
