UAW Joins Critics Slamming RFK Jr.’s Cuts to Worker Safety Unit April 9, 2025 By Gerry Smith The Trump administration’s move to gut the agency tasked with ensuring workplace safety is facing intensifying pushback, including from the...
Report: 75% of Small Businesses Had Workplace Injuries, Mental Health A Growing Concern April 2, 2025 Three-quarters of small businesses reported a workplace injury in the past year, while mental health-related injuries grew to become the...
Tesla Cited by U.S. Regulators Over Worker’s Death March 21, 2025 By Alexandra Ulmer and Ned Parker Federal regulators have cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer...
Amazon Agrees to Worker Safety Measures to Settle US Probe December 20, 2024 By Daniel Wiessner Amazon.com will implement new safety measures at all of its U.S. facilities to settle a federal agency’s claims that it...
Report: Decline in Worker Death Investigations Related to Focus on Safety November 14, 2024 Fewer workers are dying from hazards where the federal safety resources have been focused, according to a new report. Preliminary...
ADM Sued for Alleged Misconduct, Lack of Safety Inspections After Explosion Hurt Worker October 21, 2024 By P.J. Huffstutter Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. intentionally failed to test and maintain safety systems on its grain equipment for years, which contributed to an...
GAO Wants OSHA to Do More to Address Ergonomic Hazards in Growing e-Commerce Sector October 21, 2024 OSHA must do more to address ergonomic hazards at warehouses and delivery companies, where the number of injured workers in...
What Keeps Small Business Owners up? Their Worst Workplace Nightmares October 16, 2024 By Igor Colonno Selestino What workplace frights keep small business owners up at night? It may sound like part of a Halloween ditty, but...
Student-on-Employee Workers’ Compensation Assault Claims Drop: Gallagher Bassett August 12, 2024 By Allen Laman The number of workers’ compensation claims for student-on-school-employee assault dropped significantly during the 2023-24 school year, according to data from...
Travelers: Costliest Claims Driven by Most Common Workplace Accidents August 7, 2024 Analysis of 1.2 million workers’ compensation claims reveals the costliest claims are driven by the most common workplace accidents, according...