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Recent News About U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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US Department of Labor, Trumbull Corp. partners to protect workers on Berkeley County, West Virginia, highway construction project
The partnership seeks to prevent worker injuries and exposure to hazards by developing a public-private approach to safety and health during construction of a three-mile, four-lane highway in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
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US Department of Labor finds lawn service contractor ignored safety standards, allowed workers to operate riding mowers dangerously at Fort Campbell
A federal workplace safety inspection of a lawn service contractors' operations at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, has found the company ignored safety requirements to save time, including removing safety guards on industrial lawnmowers.
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US Department of Labor, Colorado Health Care Association collaborate to help keep long-term care workers safe, healthy
OSHA and the Colorado Health Care Association have signed an ambassador-level alliance to provide long-term care workers in Colorado with information, guidance and access to training resources.
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US Department of Labor, Power Generation Workgroup alliance promotes importance of safety for workers
OSHA Region VIII and the Power Generation VPP Workgroup, industry professionals committed to the goals of the OSHA's national VPP program, have established an alliance to increase safety for power industry workers.
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US Department of Labor certifies Maine's completion of developmental steps of occupational safety, health plan for state, local government workers
The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has certified the completion of all structural and developmental aspects of Maine's State Plan for protecting the safety and health of state and local government workers.
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Federal investigation of teen worker's fall from New Castle store roof finds Georgia contractor violated child labor, overtime, worker safety laws
A federal investigation into why a 17-year-old worker – who fell 24 feet from the roof of a New Castle, Pennsylvania, home improvement store in October 2022 – was doing work that violated child labor laws led to a wider review into how the roofing contractor failed to pay 30 employees their full wages and exposed other workers to dangerous fall hazards.
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Federal investigation orders church to pay back wages, reinstate employee fired for raising concerns about rodents, insects in childcare center
After a nutrition specialist employed at a Dallas childcare facility raised concerns about rodents, spiders and other insects in its cafeteria, kitchen and other areas, their employer acted far from charitably and terminated the worker in August 2021.
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OSHA to hold online meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Heat Work Group on April 27
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold an online meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Heat Work Group on April 27, 2023, from 2 to 4 p.m. ET.
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Investigations by Department of Labor, Vernon Police lead to first-degree manslaughter charges in Connecticut trench fatality
Inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, special agents with the department's Office of Inspector General, and detectives with the Town of Vernon's Police Department investigated the collapse of an 8-foot-deep trench that killed an employee of Botticello Inc., a Manchester construction contractor.
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Federal investigators find operating, training deficiencies contributed to fatal BP Products refinery explosion that claimed two workers' lives
A federal investigation into two workers' fatal burns at an Oregon, Ohio, refinery's crude unit has found its operator, BP Products North America Inc. violated the U.S. Department of Labor's process safety procedures for highly hazardous materials and failed to adequately train the workers.
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US Department of Labor, National Safety Council Nebraska Chapter sign alliance to train employers, workers on common hazards
On March 7, 2023, OSHA Area Director Matthew Thurlby in Omaha and Eric Koeppe, president of the National Safety Council-Nebraska Chapter signed an alliance to promote workplace safety and health topics in general industry, construction, and agriculture.
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US Department of Labor finds oil, gas waste company failed to protect workers from dangers of inhalation after employee suffers fatal injury
Federal investigators found an oil and gas company employee suffered fatal exposure to hydrogen sulfide while working near a sump pit in September 2022.
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Federal safety investigators find Mobile contractor ignored safety warnings that might have prevented 28-year-old employee’s death aboard Panama City vessel
Federal workplace safety inspectors examining how thousands of pounds of shifting cargo fatally crushed a 28-year-old worker in a ship’s cargo hold in Panama City found his employer failed to follow required safety standards, including allowing unsafe operation of cargo cranes and not providing training.
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Low-cost, higher risk: Dollar General inspections in Florida, Georgia find employees exposed to blocked emergency exits, other dangers
While it portrays its store chain as "America's neighborhood general store," Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC – one of the nation's largest discount retailers – continues to expose workers to unsafe conditions, this time at four Florida and Georgia stores.
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US Department of Labor issues final rule on handling retaliation complaints under Taxpayer First Act
The U.S. Department of Labor today issued a final rule adopting as final the procedures and time frames for handling employee retaliation complaints under the Taxpayer First Act, enacted July 1, 2019.
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Secretary Marty Walsh addresses President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget
The Biden-Harris administration today released President Biden's budget for fiscal year 2024
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Without adequate safety gear, Nebraska grain handler fatally suffocated after being engulfed in corn silo; company faces $531K in penalties
A 34-year-old worker's attempt to clean out a Roseland grain silo, in preparation for fall harvest, turned tragic on Sept. 12, 2022, when corn engulfed and asphyxiated him.
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Administrative law judge affirms citations; Alabama automotive parts supplier to pay $1.3M in penalties after 20-year-old worker's 2016 death
The independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has affirmed citations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to a global auto parts supplier after the 2016 death of a 20-year-old machine operator at an Alabama manufacturing facility.
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US Department of Labor, Operating Engineers Local 150 renew alliance for workplace place safety, training in union's apprenticeship program
On Feb. 28, 2023, OSHA's Chicago regional and metro-area offices signed an agreement with the Operating Engineers, Local 150's Apprenticeship and Skill Improvement Program that recognizes them as an OSHA Alliance Program Ambassador.
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Fire department concerns lead federal inspectors to identify dangerously blocked exit routes, fire extinguishers at Cincinnati Dollar General store
Alerted by the concerns of the West Chester Township Fire Department in Ohio, workplace safety inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor discovered exit routes, doors and fire extinguishers blocked at a Dollar General store on Princeton Glendale Road in Cincinnati, the same kinds of dangers that have contributed to more than $15 million in proposed federal penalties for the discount retail chain since 2017.