By DOL Newswire | Aug 10, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Bigston Corporation. Investigation site: 1590 Touhy Ave., Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Chicago North Area Office issued 11 serious and two other-than-serious safety and health violations...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: LORAIN, Ohio - While Republic Steel has made a significant investment in personnel, training and safety improvements, workers are still exposed to serious fall and chemical hazards at the company's century-old Lorain steel mill, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors have found.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Transporter Maintenance and Inspection LLC, a subsidiary of L & B Holdings LLC in Port Allen, Louisiana
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Grimco Inc., Fenton, Missouri
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The federal government is proposing a new standard that would dramatically lower workplace exposure to beryllium, a widely used material that can cause devastating lung diseases. The proposal would apply to an estimated 35,000 workers covered by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Warren Industries Inc. Investigation site: 3100 Mt. Pleasant Street, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Milwaukee area office issued one willful safety violation to Warren Industries, Aug.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Employer's name: The investigation was conducted at G&F Recycling and Salvage Inc., a recycling operation located at 142 Frelinghuysen Ave. in Newark, New Jersey.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), the ranking member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, praised a new standard to reduce workplace exposure...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Twitchell Technical Products LLC
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Cox Enterprises Inc. doing business as The Atlanta Journal Constitution
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today sent a letter to the Education Department's (ED) Office of Inspector General (OIG) requesting an examination...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a hearing on Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Opportunities to Improve Student Success. In her remarks, Murray said she would continue to be focused...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Superior Holding, Inc., operating as Superior Boiler Works Inc., Hutchinson, Kansas
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) asked unanimous consent to move forward on legislation to expand economic security and stability for working families across the country. The Senators asked to call up legislation to raise the minimum wage, ensure access to paid sick days, and crack down on scheduling abuses, but were blocked by Senate Republicans.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks on the Senate floor on Democrats’ efforts to date in the 114th Congress to expand economic security and stability for working families across the country. In...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Pallet Recycle of Alabama Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Maine has recently been approved by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as the newest State Plan responsible for protecting the safety and health of state and local government employees. The Maine State and Local Government Only State Plan (PDF*) will cover more than 81,000 employees of the state and its political subdivisions under an OSHA-approved plan. The plan becomes effective Aug. 5, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: Date of Action: Aug. 4, 2015
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Employees at a Cincinnati nursing care facility will benefit from improvements the company is making to its policies and procedures for transferring residents at Twin Towers, a provider of skilled nursing care services.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: OSCEOLA, Wis. - Just one year after a worker amputated part of her right index finger on a spot welding machine at an Osceola metal stamping plant, a 19-year-old female co-worker suffered a similar injury on the same machine. U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found that her employer failed to implement safety procedures they agreed upon to protect workers from machine operating parts.
