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Top 10 industries for OSHA complaints


August 8, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: contractor safety, enforcement, Illnesses, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, inspections, Latest News & Views, New safety statistics, OSHA news, Recordkeeping, Special Report, Top-10 list, What Would You Do?

More than one out of every five OSHA inspections result from employee complaints. Is your industry one of the top 10 that generate the most complaints?

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Company cited 8 times in 12 years: $354K fine


July 13, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: construction safety, contractor safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, OSHA news, Who Got Fined and Why?

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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Job site lacked safety leadership: Worker killed


May 17, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: construction safety, contractor safety, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Safety training, Who Got Fined and Why?

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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How much safety info do you get from equipment vendors?


May 4, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: construction safety, contractor safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, Research on safety, Safety training

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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Pigeon droppings make workers sick; court upholds OSHA fine


March 29, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Chemical safety, contractor safety, Illnesses, In this week's e-newsletter, Investigations, Latest News & Views, new court decision, Who Got Fined and Why?, Worker health

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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1 killed, 1 injured in trench collapse; $160K OSHA fine


March 25, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: contractor safety, cost of safety, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, Who Got Fined and Why?

A contracting company faces $159,600 in OSHA fines following the death of one employee and the hospitalization of another.

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Can injured employee collect workers’ comp and sue?


March 1, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: contractor safety, cost of safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, Lawsuits, new court decision, Workers' comp

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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BP well blowout investigation: Safety lessons for all


January 10, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: BP, contractor safety, cost of safety, Fatality, fire/explosion, In this week's e-newsletter, Investigations, Latest News & Views, safety incentives, Safety vs. production, What do you think?

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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Employee killed after scissor lift hit by forklift


December 8, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: contractor safety, Falls, Fatality, Forklift safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views

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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Worker killed by falling bag of rocks


November 16, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: contractor safety, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

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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