May 22, 2013 by Fred Hosier
OSHA has ordered a company to rehire an engineer working on a nuclear plant project and pay him back wages and other costs in a whistleblower case. The engineer had said actions taken by his employer at the nuclear plant could “end up like the situation they had in Japan.”
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Tags: back wages, nuclear plant, OSHA, whistleblower
May 20, 2013 by Fred Hosier
If an employee witnesses a horrific event at work, such as multiple people being shot to death, should workers’ compensation insurance cover treatment for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
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Tags: post traumatic stress disorder, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, shot to death, Workers' comp
May 17, 2013 by Fred Hosier
A former company president faces prison and hefty fines in connection with two workers’ deaths due to hydrogen sulfide exposure.
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Tags: company president faces prison, hydrogen sulfide, PACES, workers' deaths
May 15, 2013 by Fred Hosier
A group of Hispanic custodians in Colorado are claiming they are victims of discrimination because their employer isn’t providing various workplace documents — including those involving safety training — in Spanish.
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Tags: custodians, EEOC, safety training in Spanish, understand English
May 13, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Imagine being able to get an exemption from an OSHA regulation due to who buys your product. The fertilizer plant in Texas that recently exploded, killing 15 people, may have been doing just that.
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Tags: fertilizer plant explosion, OSHA, process safety management, Texas, West
May 13, 2013 by Fred Hosier
The death of a worker who was accidentally cooked to death in an industrial pressure cooker has resulted in fines for Bumble Bee tuna company.
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Tags: bumble bee, Cal/OSHA, confined space, cooked to death, energy control
May 10, 2013 by Fred Hosier
It’s been estimated that for every lost time injury of more than three days, there are dozens of prior non-injury incidents. So why don’t workers report more near-misses so there are fewer serious injuries?
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Tags: ASSE, Caterpillar Safety Services, near misses, near-miss reporting
May 8, 2013 by Fred Hosier
A judge has ordered a UCLA chemistry professor to stand trial in the death of a 23-year-old research assistant who died from burns she received in a lab fire.
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Tags: lab fire, Patrick Harran, Sheharbano Sangji, UCLA
May 6, 2013 by Fred Hosier
One reason for a drug-free workplace policy is employee safety. But how do the growing number of state medical marijuana laws factor into this?
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Tags: Dish Network, medical marijuana, recreational marijuana laws
May 6, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Prior, less serious safety violations often foreshadow future, more tragic events. They did in the case of an employee who met his death in a meat blender.
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Tags: death in meat blender, Interstate Meat Distributors, lockout, Oregon OSHA
