By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Obama Administration’s proposal to make two years of community college free for qualifying students.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on Chairman Lamar Alexander’s No Child Left Behind proposal.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Jan. 12, 2015BOS 2015-007. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Workers doing renovation at the former Dye Works at 15 Cottage St. in Easthampton faced potentially fatal falls of up to 40 feet because their employers failed to provide proper protection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement regarding President Obama's higher education proposal...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives debated earlier today the Save American Workers Act (H.R. 30), bipartisan legislation to repeal the health care law’s 30-hour definition of “full-time" employment and restore the traditional 40-hour work week.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Working at an industrial facility is dangerous. An employer who ignores serious hazards and puts workers in harm's way threatens everyone's well-being, a point not lost on U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators who identified 25 serious safety and health violations after a July 2014 inspection at Transition of Superior Systems in Merkel. Fines totaled $51,600.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A 25-year-old employee of Miller's Plumbing and Mechanical Inc. died after being struck and crushed by a material/personnel elevator carriage not enclosed on all four sides. The employee was working on a six-story residential project at Florida State University.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: FORT BRAGG, N.C. - 'Clyde Nettles Jr. was in an unprotected trench reconnecting drainpipes at Fort Bragg on July 24, 2014, when, without warning, the walls collapsed around him and another worker. The other worker was able to escape uninjured, but 22-year-old Nettles was not.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Dollar General store employees in Wolcott could not exit* the store swiftly during a fire or emergency because of a locked emergency door in the store's back room, an Oct. 24, 2014, inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found. In 2010, OSHA cited the retail chain for the same hazard at a store in Buffalo.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2015
News Release: PEKIN, Ill. - A 37-year-old worker at Agridyne's Pekin facility climbed down into a rail car to clean out corn steep residue and was overcome by dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas. A 29-year-old tank inspector, who attempted to rescue the first worker, succumbed to the gas exposure as well. Neither worker made it out of the car alive.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: DALTON, Ga. - An MFG Chemical Inc. worker died after hazardous chemical vapors released from an overpressurized reactor burned his respiratory system. A second employee was treated at a hospital and released. A July 2014 inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: This palletizer conveyor is the type of machine an Ice River Springs worker unjammed on July 6, 2014, at the company's High Springs, Florida, facility.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: CHANNAHON, Ill. - For the third time in two years, a chemical tank cleaning service has exposed workers cleaning portable tank wagons to dangerous confined space hazards. Responding to a complaint, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found seven repeated and two serious violations at Dedicated TCS LLC's Channahon site. OSHA has proposed penalties of $79,464.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has renewed an alliance with the Laser Institute of America to help protect workers from exposure to beam and non-beam laser hazards in industrial, construction, medical and research workplaces.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2015
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Workers at Hagerty Brothers Co. were exposed to dangerous levels of lead and copper dust during brass finishing and grinding work at its Peoria facility, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. After an OSHA inspection on June 24, 2014, the...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2015
News Release: SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - For the eighth time since 2011, Domestic Casting's iron foundry has been investigated, cited, and fined by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for not protecting its employees from safety and health hazards. OSHA's three most recent inspections...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2015
News Release: ST. MARYS, Ohio - Three employees were exposed to dangerous levels of lead, arsenic, iron oxide and copper particles and fumes while torch-cutting steel at a scrapyard operated by OmniSource St. Marys. Their employer, CS Metals Inc., did not provide required personal protective equipment or health monitoring, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2015
News Release: EDGERTON, Wis. - Diaz Roofing LLC allowed four employees to reshingle a residential rooftop without required fall protection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. As a result, OSHA cited the roofing company for one willful and one serious safety violation with proposed penalties of $73,080. The company has been cited previously 11 times for lack of fall protection.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2015
News Release: PIASA, Ill. - A 33-year-old worker fell to his death because his employer, Mid-State Construction & Roofing Inc., failed to provide fall protection. The employee was installing roofing materials at Southwest High School in Piasa on Aug. 4, 2014, when he fell 27 feet to the ground and suffered blunt force trauma. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the roofing company for one willful and four serious safety violations.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2015
News Release: Saehaesung Alabama Inc. opened its LaFayette plant in July 2011.
