News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 14, 2022
An employee of a Watertown metal fabrication company was electrocuted on July 14, 2021, while repairing a portable water heater. An inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that his employer, PM Engineered Solutions Inc., lacked safeguards to protect employees against electrocution, as well as mechanical, chemical, fall and other electrical hazards.
By Press release submission | Jan 14, 2022
Registered nurses, certified nursing assistants, patient care technicians and security officers provide essential services in healthcare settings. Their work also exposes them to various on-the-job hazards, including assault and other forms of workplace violence.
By Press release submission | Jan 14, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and a group of elevator industry stakeholders known as the “Elevator Industry Safety Partners” collectively have signed a five-year alliance agreement to renew their commitment to protect nearly 75,000 workers who construct, install, repair and maintain elevator industry conveyances. OSHA’s 10 regions nationwide will participate in the alliance.
By Press release submission | Jan 14, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor announced adjustments to Occupational Safety and Health Administration civil penalty amounts based on cost-of-living adjustments for 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: Given the historical circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy, combined with the urgent need for workforce data, the U.S. Census Bureau has decided to defer the introduction of updated confidentiality protections and release the January 2022 Current Population Survey Public Use File (CPS PUF) in February 2022 as originally scheduled.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: MOOSE, WY- The Teton Range Bighorn Sheep Working Group including Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, and Wyoming Game and Fish Department invite backcountry users to join in stewardship efforts to protect bighorn sheep. The Working Group released...
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
Anticorruption Policy and Research Outreach and Engagement grant opened on Jan. 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Rochester man was sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for the arson of a Minneapolis pawn shop that resulted in the death of a man. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright sentenced the defendant.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
Release: APHIS updated the to include the following changes: APHIS restricts the movement of domestic soil from areas within the continental United States that are under quarantine for specific plant pests. The Federal Domestic Soil Quarantines Map provides an overview of the plant pest quarantines that affect ...
By Press release submission | Jan 14, 2022
The Teton Range Bighorn Sheep Working Group including Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, and Wyoming Game and Fish Department invite backcountry users to join in stewardship efforts to protect bighorn sheep.
By Press release submission | Jan 14, 2022
The City of Natchitoches, Cane River National Heritage Area, Cane River Creole National Historical Park, and DSW Construction hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Texas and Pacific Railway Depot Rehabilitation Project on Thursday, January 13, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On Jan. 11, 2022, United States District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced COREY DUNN, age 49, to eighty-seven (87) months in the Bureau of Prisons for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base, a schedule II drug-controlled substance, during the commission of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Press release submission | Jan 14, 2022
Cape Hatteras National Seashore recently issued a special use permit to the U.S. Coast Guard to perform intermittent dredging activities near the Oregon Inlet public boat ramps and marina.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
Release: PITTSBURGH - A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer at Pittsburgh International Airport prevented a Westmoreland County, Pa., woman from bringing a loaded handgun onto her flight this morning (Jan. 14).
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
Engaging Emerging Leaders on the U.S.-Timorese Partnership grant opened on Jan. 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - United States Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III announced today that the Eastern District of Tennessee collected $4,281,327.54 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $3,668,516.41 was collected in criminal actions and $612,811.13 was collected in civil actions.
By Press release submission | Jan 14, 2022
Beginning February 1st and continuing through May 31st, the National Park Service (NPS) will again temporarily close select areas in the Chisos Mountains to protect nesting falcons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Massachusetts man was sentenced today in federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
