August 8, 2011 by Fred Hosier
July 13, 2011 by Fred Hosier
A contractor with a history of violating workplace safety standards faces a total of $354,000 in new fines from OSHA in connection with trenching hazards at two work sites.
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Tags: contractor, ladder, repeat violation, Severe Violator Enforcement Program, shoring, trench collapse, trenching hazards, willful violation
May 17, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Safety inspectors say a lack of training and safety leadership on a job site contributed to the death of a worker.
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Tags: construction project, safety leadership, Safety training, struck-by
May 4, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Imagine this: You’ve bought a new piece of equipment for your company that is hazardous and will require safety training for employees. Where do you get the necessary safety info for the equipment?
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Tags: Duke University, equipment manufacturers, equipment vendors, nail guns, Safety training
March 29, 2011 by Fred Hosier
An administrative law judge with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld fines against an Ohio company. An inspection revealed several employees had symptoms of a potentially fatal respiratory disease after sweeping up pigeon droppings.
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Tags: fatal respiratory disease, histoplasmosis, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, pigeon droppings, worker struck in head
March 25, 2011 by Fred Hosier
A contracting company faces $159,600 in OSHA fines following the death of one employee and the hospitalization of another.
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Tags: excavation, personal protective equipment, trench collapse
March 1, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Workers’ compensation is supposed to be the exclusive remedy for an employee injured at work — it protects employers from lawsuits. But that doesn’t stop some workers from trying to find the situations when comp isn’t the exclusive remedy.
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Tags: exclusive remedy, general contractor, Workers' comp
January 10, 2011 by Fred Hosier
A government investigation into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill looks at specific factors such as how deep a cement plug was set and whether additional barriers should have been installed. But the root causes of the incident that killed 11 workers focus on common subjects for workplace safety: management, communication, previous near-misses, safety culture and government regulation.
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Tags: BP well blowout, government investigation, government regulation, Halliburton, near misses, safety culture, safety management, Transocean
December 8, 2010 by Fred Hosier
An electrical contract worker was killed and another employee was critically injured after they fell 30 feet from a scissor lift.
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Tags: contract worker, forklift, scissor lift
November 16, 2010 by Fred Hosier
OSHA is trying to determine what went wrong after a construction worker was killed when a 60-pound bag of rocks fell off a four-story building.
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Tags: construction worker, struck by falling object
