News from November 2016
By Fed Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Nov. 10, 2016, announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by First Midwest Bancorp, Inc., Itasca, Illinois, to merge with Standard Bancshares, Inc. and thereby indirectly acquire Standard Bank and Trust Company ("SB&T"), ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will host a high-level Government of China delegation for the 27th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), November 21-23, in Washington. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: OAKDALE, Minn. – A Minnesota company that provided cable equipment recovery services to leading cable providers such as Comcast, Time Warner and Charter Communications, will pay $350,000 to drivers and market contractors misclassified as independent contractors to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit. ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: CAMBRIDGE, Ohio – For the second time in two years, federal safety inspectors have found Shelly & Sands Inc. – a large regional highway construction company – exposing its workers to the serious and sometimes fatal risk of falls by allowing them to climb over guardrails of an aerial lift onto a highway overpass.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI, Ohio – Just five weeks after a 28-year-old maintenance worker lost part of his right arm in an improperly guarded bread wrapping machine at the Cincinnati-based Klosterman Baking Co., federal safety inspectors investigating the injury found another worker exposed to the same hazard.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WEST POINT, Neb. – Working to clear crusted corn from the sides of a grain bin, a 52-year-old maintenance employee found himself engulfed in hundreds of pounds of grain, just minutes after the wall of corn collapsed and buried him. Rescued by emergency crews, he died of his injuries two days later.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Federal investigators have cited a Jefferson City roofing contractor after a 47-year-old laborer collapsed on Aug. 17, 2016, and later died after being hospitalized with a core body temperature above 107 degrees.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: MORAINE, Ohio – Workers began making multiple complaints of unsafe working conditions at the Fuyao Glass America Inc. facility in Moraine not long after it opened in October 2015, leading to eight separate federal inspections and $226,937 in proposed penalties for the automotive glass supplier to plant brands such as Audi, Cadillac, Land Rover, Volvo and Volkswagen.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – On Dec. 7, 1992, an explosion that rocked the South Mountain #3 coal mine in Norton, Virginia killed eight miners, and led investigators to find that failing to ventilate the mine properly, conduct pre-shift and weekly examinations, and apply proper amounts of rock dust contributed to the explosion.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 10, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a five page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
The US Justice Department published a three page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 10, 2016
The US Justice Department published a three page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
