A 48-year-old worker entered a tanker-trailer in Lemont, Illinois, to inspect it as part of an annual U.S. Department of Transportation requirement and was overcome from exposure to bleach and chlorine gas. The worker was found unconscious in the tanker-trailer, …
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is fining Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. $1.76 million for worker injuries at its Arcadia, Wis., plant, the agency said. OSHA said the plant saw more than 1,000 work-related injuries in a 42 month …
Federal safety authorities cited a roofing company and proposed $70,000 in penalties for a worker’s fatal fall from one Omaha roof to another, the agency said Monday. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said JMA Roofing …