By DOL Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: FORT SCOTT, Kan. - Workers welding inside steel tanks were exposed to toxic fumes because their employer lacked an effective program to protect them, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. Niece Products of Kansas received 15 serious safety...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 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 Senator floor following last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments on the King v. Burwell case. In her remarks, Murray highlighted that the Affordable Care...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2015
News Release: BOS 2015-048. BOSTON - A Maine roofing contractor's continued refusal to obey a federal court order to correct safety hazards and pay more than $400,000 in fines could send him to jail. The U.S. Department of Labor has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in Boston to hold Stephen Lessard...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 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 President Obama’s proposed Student Aid Bill of Rights.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Employer name and location: Framing, siding, and roofing contractor K&F Construction Inc., P.O. Box 6013, Martinsburg, W. Va. 25402
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Hi Temp Northlake LLC, operating as Bluewater Thermal Solutions in Northlake, Illinois, a subsidiary of Bluewater Thermal Solutions of Greenville, South Carolina. The company specializes in heat treating powder metal parts.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Mar. 10, 2015 BOS 2015-045. Employer name: Franco Roofing, Inc., roof construction contractor, Yonkers, N.Y. Inspection site: 58 Edgemont Road, Katonah, N.Y. 10536. Date inspection initiated: OSHA's Tarrytown Area Office began an inspection on Oct. 20, 2014, when OSHA inspectors who were driving by...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 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 HELP Committee hearing on Continuing America’s Leadership in Medical Innovation for Patients. In her remarks, Murray called for bipartisanship and continued...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A worker alleging the existence of asbestos, mold and hygiene hazards led to an inspection of an Advance Auto Parts store in Kansas City, where the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found one repeated and 10 serious safety and health violations with fines of $60,000.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: BRIDGETON, Mo. - A 58-year-old maintenance worker was killed after he was pinned between a scrap metal table and a railing at Hussmann Corp.'s Bridgeton facility, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found. OSHA said the company failed to prevent...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today published a final rule finalizing procedures for handling whistleblower retaliation complaints filed under Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The SOX Act protects employees who report fraudulent activities and violations of Securities Exchange Commission rules that can harm investors in publicly traded companies.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - If his employer had protected him properly as he worked in a 12-foot-deep trench to connect a new home's plumbing to the main sewer line, 31-year-old LeDonte McCruter could have returned home at day's end to spend time with the young nieces and nephews he adored. Instead, a kind man...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Menards Inc., 4777 Menard Drive, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) announced the 21st Century Women’s Health Act, a new bill that would protect and build on progress made on women’s...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 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) have requested information regarding a pending regulatory proposal to expand the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - Two temporary workers injured in an explosion at Polychem Services Inc., were unable to return to work for months after being hospitalized with first- and second-degree burns after their work site was ignited by a gas-powered forklift.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: DENVER - The death of a 52-year-old man, killed when a scrap metal baler started while he worked inside, could have been averted if his employer, Atlas Metal & Iron Corp., had made sure the machine was shut down properly, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has determined. After a September 2014 inspection that followed the incident, OSHA investigators found 12 safety violations at the Denver-based scrap-processing facility.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Since 2013, 294 workers have been killed by falls: a deadly fact that one roofing contractor appears willing to ignore as it was found putting the safety of its employees at risk by U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health inspectors once again.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate labor committee, and Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, today called on National Labor Relations ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - When an employee raises concerns about the dangers of asbestos in a school, you would expect them to be commended and not terminated. After questioning whether the timeline of a construction project at a school in Idaho Falls School District 91 allowed for safe removal of asbestos, a district employee was out of a job. Now, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has stepped in to protect that worker's rights.
