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After 6 Worker Deaths at Georgia Chicken Plant, OSHA Issues $1 Million in Fines

ATLANTA– A North Georgia chicken plant and its associated companies face $1 million in fines and scores of citations from the Biden administration over the deaths of six workers and injuries of a dozen in a nitrogen accident in January. …

Annual Report Reveals 48 Massachusetts Workers Died in 2013

An annual report looking at the number of on-the-job deaths and injuries in Massachusetts has found 48 workers were killed on their job in 2013. The report, produced by the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupation Safety and …

OSHA Investigating Alabama Overpass Deaths

Federal officials are investigating an industrial accident that claimed the lives of two workers who fell about 90 feet from a highway overpass in the Montgomery area. Joseph Roesler, area director for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Mobile, …

Delaware Refinery Owners Wins Insurance Lawsuit

A Delaware judge has ruled for owners of the Delaware City oil refinery in lawsuit over insurance coverage involving the deaths of two workers who suffocated inside a tank. The judge granted summary judgment this week to Premcor Refinery Group, …

Cal/OSHA Cites Employers for Worker’s Death in Confined Space

Cal/OSHA cited Artesia-based Express Chipping, Inc. following the death of a 40-year-old worker who was chipping concrete inside a cement mixer when he was struck by a 1,200-pound slab of concrete. Cal/OSHA cited the company for failing to identify the …

Report: 43 Killed on the Job in West Virginia in 2011

A new labor union report says 43 workers were killed on the job in 2011 in West Virginia, down from 95 the previous year that included a mine blast that killed 29. According to the report by the AFL-CIO, there …

32 Massachusetts Workers Died on the Job in 2012

Labor and worker rights activists are honoring 32 workers who died on the job last year. The Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health released a report Thursday highlighting the deaths. The report found falls and …

OSHA Cites Mississippi Company Following Worker Deaths

Mississippi Phosphates Corp. has been cited by the government for 40 safety and health violations following the deaths of two workers in separate incidents at the company’s Pascagoula facilities. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says in a news release Monday …

Construction at Tennessee Plant Halted After Deaths

Construction on the new Wacker Polysilicon plant in Charleston, Tenn., has been halted indefinitely while investigators try to determine what caused two workers to fall to their deaths. The workers fell about 140 feet after a work platform failed late …

Courts Clear Way for Suits Over 2010 Alabama Blast Deaths

Federal courts have cleared the way for state lawsuits over the deaths of two men killed in an explosion at Alabama’s Redstone Arsenal. A judge last week rejected requests by some defendants to make federal court the venue for lawsuits …