By DOL Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has renewed its alliance with the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair. The alliance will provide CCAR members and others with training and resources to help protect the safety and health of workers in the car repair industry, as well as information on workers' rights and employer responsibilities under the OSH Act.
By DOL Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health today released the Hospital Respiratory Protection Toolkit *, a resource for health care employers to use to protect hospital staff from respiratory hazards.
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Employer name: DS Utilities Inc. Inspection site: At the time of the inspection, workers were installing sewer lines at the intersection of Lee and Washington Roads, Fort Jackson, South Carolina 29207. Date inspection initiated: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated the January...
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: VANDALIA, Ill. - A metal tube manufacturer put workers at risk of lacerations, amputations and potential explosion and fire by ignoring standard safety rules for machines and storing flammable materials in open containers near propane heaters where they might ignite.
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 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 House passage of legislation that would severely restrict a woman’s constitutionally protected access to reproductive care.
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) introduced the Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act (FDCA) of 2015, which would amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prohibit credit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. There is currently no federal law that protects LGBT individuals from credit discrimination.
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: May 12, 2015BOS 2015-103. Forever 21 Retail Inc. store in Connecticut among those endangering. employees because of obstructed emergency exit routes. Westfarms Mall location receives 3 repeated citations, faces $165K in fines. HARTFORD, Conn. - Emergency exits blocked by piles of store inventory appears...
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Workers stamping metal automotive parts at a Peoria manufacturer were at risk of lacerations and amputations and in danger of being struck-by robotic welding equipment because their employer ignored machine safety rules.
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Americold, Atlanta, Georgia. Inspection site: Americold, 1731 Morrow Street, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Date investigation initiated and what prompted inspection: On Dec. 9, 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Appleton Area Office initiated an...
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 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 updated recommendations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding gay men and blood donation.
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, May 14 at 10:30 a.m., the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Examining the Federal Government’s Mismanagement of Native American Schools." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: Participants: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today entered into an alliance with the Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Houston, American Subcontractors Associations-Houston Chapter, Gulf Coast Safety Institute of the College of the Mainland and the Scaffold and Access...
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: NEW ALBANY, Ohio - When a 23-year-old diver descended to the bottom of a New Albany pond in November 2014, he thought his air supply would last during underwater work. He drowned when his air supply depleted while SCUBA diving.
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Inspectors from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration were headed back to their Providence office on Jan. 22, 2015, after completing one site inspection when they saw a dangerous situation in clear view at another site in North Smithfield.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2015
News Release: MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa. - Lloyd Industries Inc. manufacturers the ventilation, duct and fire safety products used at places like New York's Chrysler Building, Philadelphia International Airport, and the stadiums the New York Yankees and Baltimore Ravens call home.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2015
News Release: GRANTSBURG, Wis. - For most of his adult life, a 52-year-old man avoided the dangers of working at a Grantsburg feed mill. In November 2014, he was trying to unclog a sump when he was engulfed by corn and died in a grain bin.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2015
News Release: Employer Name and Location: Americold Logistics LLC is located at 60 Steamboat Boulevard in Manchester, Pennsylvania. The company provides temperature-controlled warehousing and logistical support to the food industry, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2015
News Release: BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio - A rubber-hose manufacturer in Ohio continues to put workers at risk of amputations and serious injuries by ignoring safety rules for industrial machines, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found after an October 2104 inspection.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) applauded the announcement by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell that the Administration will release guidance clarifying consumers’ rights on contraception coverage and other essential health benefits under the Affordable Care Act following reports of violations, including in Washington state.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2015
News Release: NASHPORT, Ohio - It takes only 60 seconds for a worker to be submerged in flowing grain; more than half of those engulfed in grain die. Workers at Hanby Farms in Nashport were exposed to being buried in grain or overcome by noxious fumes because the company did not verify that conditions were safe before allowing employees to enter bins at the grain elevator and feed mill.
