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OSHA Cites Georgia Company After Trench Collapse

Federal officials say they found that a Georgia firm violated safety regulations after a Covington man died when a trench collapsed at a subdivision in Cumming. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Friday that Jackson-based …

OSHA Cites Georgia Company After Trench Collapse

Federal officials say they found that a Georgia firm violated safety regulations after a Covington man died when a trench collapsed at a subdivision in Cumming. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Friday that Jackson-based …

Nebraska Manufacturing Plant Cited for 23 Violations

A Valley business that makes grain bins has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 23 violations of workplace rules. Bushnell Illinois Tank Co., which operates in Valley as Schuld/Bushnell, faces more than $142,000 in fines. OSHA …

Illinois Home Depot Store Fined $55,000 by OSHA

A Home Depot store in Chicago was cited for alleged safety violations, including failing to remove damaged equipment from service by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The company faces proposed penalties of $55,000. Two repeat citations, with proposed …

OSHA Cites Howard Industries in Mississippi

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Howard Industries for 17 safety and health violations following the January death of a worker who was electrocuted while calibrating a transformer test station. Authorities say the worker was testing electrical transformers …

Viking to Pay $450,000 Civil Penalty for CPSC Citation

The Viking Range Corporation will pay a $450,000 civil penalty for failing to report defects in its refrigerators. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the agreement Tuesday. The CPSC had alleged Greenwood, Miss.-based Viking was aware for years of …

Ill.’s Caterpillar Inc. Fined $66,000 by OSHA

Caterpillar Inc. in East Peoria has been hit with proposed penalties of $66,000 for three safety violations for failing to follow proper procedures to lock out and tag out the energy sources of equipment, according to OSHA. This follows an …

Arkansas’ Tyson Foods Contests OSHA Fine Over Fatal Silo Collapse

Tyson Foods Inc. has contested a $70,000 fine levied by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following the collapse of a silo that killed a man at Tyson’s feed mill in Nashville. OSHA issued the fine June 1 after finding …

OSHA Cites Cooper Tire, 2 Contractors in Mississippi

Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. will challenge allegations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that the company committed safety violations at its plant in Tupelo. Cooper Tire spokeswoman Michelle Zeisloft tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that the company …

Texas-based Arreola Masonry Fined for Workplace Hazards

Arreola Masonry has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) with three serious and three repeat safety violations for exposing workers to fall hazards at the company’s work site in Cedar Park, Texas. …