A fall left a worker submerged in a giant tank of peanuts. Fortunately, he lived to tell about the experience.
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Tags: giant tank of peanuts, grain handlers, self-contained breathing apparatus
How far should the “exclusive remedy” provision of workers’ comp go?
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Tags: court, criminal charges, Workers' comp
A South Dakota company now faces $1.61 million in citations.
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Tags: confined spaces, engulfed and smothered, Fatality, million-dollar fine, South Dakota Wheat Growers
Seven-figure OSHA fines are becoming more common, especially in cases when the agency believes the company acted with willful disregard to safety.
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OSHA has fined a waste processing company $207,800 after an investigation prompted by a fatality at the facility.
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and OSHA interim administrator Jordan Barab have said that a new combustible dust regulation is one of their rulemaking priorities at OSHA.
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Tags: combustible dust regulation, Hilda Solis, Imperial Sugar explosion, Jordan Barab
A government agency says the February 2008 explosion and fire at the Imperial Sugar plant in Port Wentworth, GA, that killed 14 workers and injured 36 others, was caused by poor equipment design, maintenance and housekeeping.
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Tags: Chemical Safety Board, combustible dust, dust explosion and fire, Imperial Sugar explosion, poor housekeeping
OSHA takes employee safety complaints seriously, especially when a company has a record of previous infractions.
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Tags: employee safety complaints, Milk Specialties Co., seven-figure OSHA fine
A 17-year-old worker at a grain elevator in Haswell, CO, was killed after being buried alive in a grain bin.
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Tags: buried alive in grain, entrapment in a bin, stored loose materials
Do you have workers who clean in confined spaces? Here’s a cautionary tale for them.
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Tags: clean in confined spaces, cooked to death, soup factory
An OSHA fine isn’t always the only penalty a company can expect from the government when it experiences a workplace fatality.
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Tags: criminal charge, suffocation, worker's death
Some employees may not understand at first why you’d tell them not to rescue a co-worker who has collapsed. But this case provides a good reminder of the potential consequences.
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Tags: confined spaces, rescue, toxic fumes
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