OSHA investigation News

AIG Introduces OSHA Assist to Cover Construction Clients Facing OSHA Investigations

American International Group, Inc. introduced OSHA Counsel Assist (“OSHA Assist”), an enhancement to general liability programs for construction clients that provides policyholders with legal support and additional limits if a work place injury or death results in an investigation by …

Feds to Investigate New York Dumbwaiter Death

Federal workplace safety investigators are looking into the death of a Schenectady, N.Y., restaurant co-owner who died after his head became wedged in the kitchen dumbwaiter. Schenectady Fire Chief Michael Della Rocco says it appears Israel Silva was trying to …

OSHA Investigating 2 Fatal Mississippi Blasts in 2 Weeks

The mother of a man who died in an explosion at a Pascagoula, Miss., fertilizer factory says her son never spoke of any safety problems at the plant. Twenty-year-old Jeremy Moore of Hurley died Friday _ the second man to …

Report on Deadly Arkansas Blast Could Be Weeks Away

It may be several weeks before local, state and federal agencies issue a final report on an explosion that killed three oil field workers. Union County emergency management director Jerry Thomas told the El Dorado News-Times the Occupational Safety and …

OSHA to Investigate Man’s Death at Phoenix Airport

The Phoenix Office of the Occupational, Safety and Health Administration says it is investigating last week’s death of a Mesa man at Sky Harbor International Airport. Authorities say US Airways employee Robert DeMarco died Friday when he became lodged between …

Contract Worker Dies in Fall at Ill. Refinery Site

Federal workplace-safety officials are investigating the death of a contractor who fell nearly 50 feet while doing welding on an above-ground tank at a southwestern Illinois oil refinery. Madison County Coroner Stephen Nonn said Bradley Edmund, 38, of Taylorville died …