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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
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
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.
Low-cost, higher risk: Dollar General inspections in Florida, Georgia find employees exposed to blocked emergency exits, other dangers
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
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.
US Department of Labor issues final rule on handling retaliation complaints under Taxpayer First Act
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
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.
Secretary Marty Walsh addresses President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
The Biden-Harris administration today released President Biden's budget for fiscal year 2024
Without adequate safety gear, Nebraska grain handler fatally suffocated after being engulfed in corn silo; company faces $531K in penalties
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
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.
Administrative law judge affirms citations; Alabama automotive parts supplier to pay $1.3M in penalties after 20-year-old worker's 2016 death
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
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.
US Department of Labor, Operating Engineers Local 150 renew alliance for workplace place safety, training in union's apprenticeship program
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
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.
Fire department concerns lead federal inspectors to identify dangerously blocked exit routes, fire extinguishers at Cincinnati Dollar General store
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
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.
Unaware of the danger, painter fatally falls 21 feet after stepping onto unsecured balcony at Cleveland residential construction project
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
A 51-year-old painting contractor at a residential apartment complex in Cleveland stepped onto a third-floor balcony and it tilted suddenly, causing him to fall 21 feet onto the concrete below.
Unaware of the danger, painter fatally falls 21 feet after stepping onto unsecured balcony at Cleveland residential construction project
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
A 51-year-old painting contractor at a residential apartment complex in Cleveland stepped onto a third-floor balcony and it tilted suddenly, causing him to fall 21 feet onto the concrete below
Mercury poisoning: Long Island thermometer maker's workers sickened by unsafe exposures to toxic metal, faces nearly $200K in penalties
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
Federal workplace safety inspectors have cited a thermometer manufacturer for overexposing their employees to mercury at its West Babylon facility.
Department of Labor finds LaFayette insulation manufacturer ignored safety standards after investigation of worker's serious head injury
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
A 21-year-old line operator at a LaFayette, Georgia, insulation manufacturer suffered severe head trauma after being caught in a machine's roller.
US Department of Labor investigation of Del Monte cannery worker's amputation injury finds company violated federal safety standards
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
At a Plover, Wisconsin, Del Monte Foods cannery, a 20-year-old seasonal worker suffered a partial amputation of their finger after attempting to unjam an unguarded palletizer machine, a federal workplace safety investigation found.
US Department of Labor, American Society of Safety Professionals in East Texas partner for better safety, health in the workplace
By DOL Newswire Reports | Mar 17, 2023
OSHA's Dallas and Fort Worth Area offices and the ASSP East Texas Chapter have signed a two-year alliance to educate employers and member on work hazards.