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
Probably most of us have had a foot blister due to a pair of shoes that didn’t fit quite right. This employee says his steel-toed boots, required at work, led to a costly medical problem. Did he get workers’ comp for the injury?
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Tags: diabetes, leg amputation, steel-toed boots, Workers' comp
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether workers should be paid for their time donning and doffing protective safety gear.
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Tags: donning and doffing, protective gear, safety gear, U.S. Supreme Court
OSHA fines are one thing. But imagine being shut down because of a safety violation. In this case, it was lack of machine guards.
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Tags: Cal/OSHA, machine guards, stop-work order, underground economy
How do you test whether PPE creates employee susceptibility to heat stress? Get a Sweating Thermal Manikin (STM).
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Tags: heat stress, NIOSH, PPE, sweating thermal manikin
Interpretation of a safety regulation sometimes turns on the meaning of one word. That was the case regarding an OSHA fine for lack of PPE. Now a review panel has taken another look at the matter.
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Tags: eye protection, OSHRC, PPE, protective eye wear
After being previously warned, a worker was fired for safety violations. But the worker says he was really fired for union activity. How did a judge rule in this case?
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Tags: Dish Network, National Labor Relations Board, safety gear, worker fired
A construction worker was half buried in concrete but survived thanks to a 90-minute rescue conducted by first responders.
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Tags: buried in concrete, collapsed form wall, construction project, first responders
OSHA’s Hurricane eMatrix outlines the activities most commonly performed during hurricane response and recovery work and provides detailed information about the hazards associated with those activities. Click through for more.
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Tags: downed power lines, hurricane, OSHA, Sandy
The former owner of a business where two workers died within a four-month period faces years in prison and hundreds of thousands in fines following an indictment by a federal grand jury.
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Tags: hazardous materials, hydrogen sulfide, owner faces prison, PACES
