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US Department of Labor finds fire, electrical, other hazards in inspections at two southeast Oklahoma Dollar General stores putting workers at risk
By DOL Newswire Report | Jun 4, 2023
National retailer assessed more than $21M in proposed penalties since 2017
Department of Labor finds Dollar General continues to discount safety after inspections in Alabama, Florida yield 8 repeat violations, $1M penalties
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - Workplace safety inspections by the U.S. Department of Labor in Alabama and Florida have found three Dollar General locations exposing employees to fire hazards and other unsafe conditions.
US Department of Labor will provide worker safety, health experts in areas hardest hit in Guam by Typhoon Mawar to protect recovery workers
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2023
News Release: DEDEDO, GUAM - The U.S. Department of Labor will send experts from its Occupational Safety and Health Administration to areas of Guam hardest hit by Typhoon Mawar to protect the safety and health of recovery workers as part of the federal response and recovery effort after the storm struck the island in late May.
US Department of Labor announces 15 members of Advisory Committee on Construction Safety, Health
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today the appointments of 15 people to serve as members on the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health.
US Department of Labor finds Dollar General blocked emergency exits, allowed other safety hazards at 4 southern Pennsylvania stores
By DOL Newswire | Jun 2, 2023
News Release: US Department of Labor finds Dollar General blocked emergency exits, allowed other safety hazards at 4 southern Pennsylvania stores
US Department of Labor finds fire, electrical, other hazards in inspections at two southeast Oklahoma Dollar General stores putting workers at risk
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2023
News Release: HARTSHORNE, OK - When federal workplace safety investigators opened inspections in December 2022 at two Dollar General stores in southeast Oklahoma, they found blocked exit routes and walkways exposing employees to fire hazards, the same types of violations investigators discovered in stores across the nation operated by the national discount retailer.
US Department of Labor investigation finds Columbus children's hospital exposed nurses, other employees to workplace violence
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2023
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH ‒ A Columbus children's hospital failed to protect employees - including nurses and mental health professionals - from patients whose bites, kicks, punches and other assaults caused serious injuries, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
Lubbock Mayor Payne recognizes ‘Digging Deep in Lubbock Workshop 2023'
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2023
News Release: Lubbock Mayor Payne recognizes ‘Digging Deep in Lubbock Workshop 2023'
US Department of Labor announces more than $12M in grant funding available for worker safety, health training grants
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of more than $12.7 million in funding to make more good jobs available to the U.S. workforce by supporting training initiatives designed to promote safe and healthy in the nation's workplaces.
US Department of Labor offers webinar for grantee, applicants for federal grants to increase workplace safety training programs
By DOL Newswire Report | May 23, 2023
US Department of Labor offers webinar for grantee, applicants for federal grants to increase workplace safety training programs
Lubbock Mayor Payne recognizes 'Digging Deep in Lubbock Workshop 2023'
By DOL Newswire Report | May 22, 2023
Workshop to teach excavators, homeowners safety when digging trenches, excavations
US Department of Labor, Shipbuilders Council of America renew alliance to promote safe, healthful workplaces in Mid-Atlantic shipyard industry
By DOL Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Shipbuilders Council of America and its associate members have renewed an alliance to continue protecting the Mid-Atlantic region’s shipbuilding workers from workplace safety and health hazards.
US Department of Labor finds Colorado contractor exposing workers to trench cave-ins, including one that caused teenager's fatal injuries
By DOL Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
Despite fatality, Goldstar Excavation and Sewer repeatedly endangered workers in trenches
US Department of Labor cites 2 employers after workers show elevated levels of inorganic arsenic at Georgia chemical manufacturing facility
By DOL Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found that two companies operating at a Conley wood treatment chemical manufacturing facility exposed workers to chemical hazards.
Federal court issues consent judgment requiring Luzerne County manufacturer to pay former employee $13K in whistleblower case
By DOL Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
Department of Labor alleges Midvale Paper Box Co., owner violated whistleblower protections
OSHA to hold public meeting June 15 to discuss modernizing, improving, expanding its Voluntary Protection Programs
By DOL Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a stakeholder meeting on Thursday, June 15 in Washington, D.C., to discuss modernizing, improving and expanding the agency's Voluntary Protection Programs.
Department of Labor finds Texas Children’s Hospital failed to protect employees after security guard suffers serious assault by patient
By DOL Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
One serious citation and one Hazard Alert Letter.
Federal court finds US Postal Service wrongfully fired employee who reported workplace injury, violated federal worker protections
By DOL Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
A federal court in Tacoma has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service retaliated against an employee who reported an injury to supervisors and applied for workers' compensation benefits in 2019 while on probation as a new postal employee.
OSHA encourages stakeholders to share feedback on effectiveness of leading indicators to improve, develop resource tool
By DOL Newswire Report | May 21, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is asking for stakeholder input on their current use of leading indicators and their impact on managing their safety and health management systems.
US Department of Labor finds contractor exposed workers to trench hazards after investigation into 23-year-old worker's fatality in Aurora
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2023
News Release: AURORA, CO - In late December 2022, an unprotected trench at an Aurora residential worksite collapsed and fatally injured a 23-year-old employee, a tragedy that a Brighton sewer and water contractor could have prevented by using required protections against a leading cause of industry deaths.