OSHA Adjusts Penalty Amounts for 2018 January 18, 2018 On January 2, civil penalty amounts for violations of workplace safety and health standards increased by two percent from last...
Washington Contractor Charged With Felony for Trench Collapse Death January 11, 2018 A Seattle contractor has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of an employee who was killed when a...
Oregon OSHA Report Outlines Employee Attacks at Chimp Sanctuary December 22, 2017 Employees of a chimpanzee sanctuary in central Oregon were harmed by the animals by way of “amputations, choking, grabbing and...
Missouri Man Sues After Workplace Accident Leads to Amputation October 23, 2017 A northwest Missouri man has filed a civil lawsuit for a workplace accident that resulted in the loss of his...
Safety a Focus for Oklahoma Wind Turbine Maintenance Workers October 16, 2017 By RYAN MILLER, Enid News & Eagle For Kalon Moore and Jackson Rollins, it’s a sight they never tire of. Just about every day on the job,...
Delaware Panel Considers Health, Workplace Safety Issues of Legalized Pot October 10, 2017 By RANDALL CHASE As Delaware lawmakers consider legalizing recreational marijuana they should take a go-slow approach and address a wide range of health...
California Commuter Transit Agency Fined $220,000 in Workers’ Deaths October 9, 2017 By PAUL ELIAS A Northern California judge fined the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency $220,000 on Friday for the deaths of two workers...
Fall Protection New to OSHA’s ‘Top 10’ List of Most Cited Violations October 4, 2017 The preliminary list of OSHA’s Top 10 violations for Fiscal Year 2017 remained largely unchanged from FY 2016, except for...
Opioid Crisis Spills Into Workplaces September 21, 2017 By Catarina Saraiva, Patricia Laya and Jeanna Smialek At Philip Tulkoff’s food-processing plant in Baltimore, machines grind tough horseradish roots into puree. “If you put your arm in...
NCCI Examines Employee, Legislator and Regulator Concerns About Marijuana September 20, 2017 Two more articles released by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) examine the many questions employees, legislators and regulators...