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 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 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
May 1, 2013 by Fred Hosier
What would prevent another disaster like the recent fertilizer plant explosion in Texas that killed 15 people? A new poll has mixed reaction from the public on what the right solution is.
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Tags: better enforcement, fertilizer plant explosion, workplace safety regulations
April 28, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Today (April 28, 2013) is Workers’ Memorial Day. The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) has made a series of recommendations to reduce the number of workplace fatalities, which still number more than 4,000 per year in the U.S.
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Tags: injury and illness prevention program, National COSH, workers' memorial day, workplace fatalities
April 24, 2013 by Fred Hosier
How much your local OSHA inspector knows about occupational safety and health may depend mostly on where you’re located.
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Tags: Government Accountability Office, OSHA inspector, state OSHA
April 22, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Last summer, a judge affirmed fines and an abatement order against SeaWorld Orlando in connection with the drowning death of a trainer who was pulled underwater by a killer whale. SeaWorld appealed and in the meantime didn’t comply with the abatement order. Now a judge has weighed in again.
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Tags: Dawn Brancheau, drowning death of trainer by killer whale, OSHA abatement order, SeaWorld
April 19, 2013 by Fred Hosier
What will some people do to get their safety bonus? One safety manager hid more than 80 injuries to get a $2.5 million payout.
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Tags: falfisying injury records, nuclear plants, safety bonus, TVA
