By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2015
News Release: MADISON, Ohio - Every year, thousands of people are electrocuted at work by current from live wires and energized parts. Electrical current often enters through the skin, muscles or hair and then spikes through the nervous system, burning tissue in patches. One of those who suffered this kind of injury was a 24-year-old temporary maintenance employee at International Paper Co. in Madison. Burns hospitalized him and left him unable to work for more than four months.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Flink Co., 502 N. Vermillion St., Streator, Illinois
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - The dangers of worker exposure to hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen that can cause serious long-term health issues, including lung cancer and kidney failure, should have come as no surprise to the Lane Plating Works Inc. owner. Air-monitoring tests told him that workers were being overexposed...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) today introduced legislation to improve K-12 education and replace No Child Left Behind. Based on a proposal passed by the House in ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 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 roundtable on Fixing No Child Left Behind: Innovation to Better Meet the Needs of Students. In her opening statement, Murray explained that...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: H & W Contracting, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: AUBURN, Ala. - During an inspection of an automobile parts manufacturer, federal inspectors found that permanent and temporary employees faced electrocution, having their hands and limbs disabled or amputated by moving machine parts, and dangerous falls while working at the SCA Inc. facility in Auburn. SCA manufactures auto parts, such as blowers, heaters and evaporators for Hyundai, Kia and Ford Motor Co.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: ARCADIA, Wis. - In a three-and-a-half year period, 4,500 employees at Ashley Furniture Industries Inc., in Arcadia, experienced more than 1,000 work-related injuries. One worker became another terrible statistic when he lost three fingers in July 2014 while operating a dangerous woodworking machine without required safety mechanisms in place. Of the injuries recorded, more than 100 were caused by similar machinery.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, February 4 at 10:00 a.m., Governor Mike Pence (R-IN) will testify at a hearing chaired by House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN). The hearing, entitled “Expanding Opportunity in America’s Schools and Workplaces," will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Northrop Grumman Corp. Inspection site: Lake Charles, La. Date inspection initiated and what prompted the inspection: The inspection began August 2014 as the result of a complaint, but was expanded to also address the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's National Emphasis...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
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By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget proposal...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today entered into an alliance with the Fertilizer Safety and Health Partners and the Environmental Protection Agency to provide safety and health information and training resources to workers, emergency responders and communities surrounding...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration signed a two-year alliance on Jan. 23, 2015, with the Louisiana Forestry Association and its logging contractors, the Louisiana Logging Council.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 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 education proposals in President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Jan. 30, 2015BOS 2015-020. NEW YORK - About a year ago, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center in Northern Manhattan replaced linen laundry bags with thin plastic bags that broke and needlessly exposed workers to laundry contaminated with blood, bodily fluids and other infectious materials.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: TARRYTOWN, New York - Employees of a Brooklyn-based commercial and residential roofing contractor faced the threat of deadly or disabling falls as they replaced the 20,000-square-foot roof of Westchester County's Bedford Hills Elementary School, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 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 committee hearing on Employer Wellness Programs: Better Health Outcomes and Lower Costs. In her opening statement, Murray highlighted that wellness programs...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, led by U.S. Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), 26 Democratic senators reaffirmed their support for updating overtime rules to ensure more middle-class workers are paid fairly...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla - A second explosion in four months at the Indianhead Biomass Services plant in St. Augustine has left two laborers severely burned. An inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that two men in their 50s attempted to shut down...
