OSHA has proposed $87.43 million in fines against BP for the company’s failure to correct hazards uncovered after the 2005 explosion at its Texas City, TX, plant that killed 15 people and injured 170 others.
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Tags: 2005 explosion, BP, largest OSHA fine, Texas City plant
OSHA has released its preliminary list of the top 10 most frequent workplace safety violations for 2009.
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Tags: fall protection, frequent workplace safety violations, hazard communication, scaffolding, Top 10 safety violations 2009
The construction industry knows it’s a frequent OSHA target. Now we know that darkness won’t keep OSHA inspectors from their rounds.
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Tags: construction, night construction, silica
A restaurant faces a $50,604 fine in the death of a 17-year-old employee who was parking cars. But this fine wasn’t from OSHA.
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Tags: child labor, death of 17-year-old, FLSA, parking valet death
OSHA has fined a waste processing company $207,800 after an investigation prompted by a fatality at the facility.
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Several business groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers, have filed a lawsuit challenging OSHA’s per-employee penalty policy for safety gear violations.
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Tags: lawsuit, National Association of Manufacturers, per-employee violation, PPE, safety gear
Imagine this: Someone finds one of your employees on the ground, conscious but incoherent, in your company’s parking lot. He dies two days later in the hospital. Cause: blunt trauma to his head. Is this death reportable to OSHA?
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Tags: blunt force trauma, OSHA reportable, parking lot, work-related employee death
Conveyor belts and tracks too often prove to be the source of serious employee injuries. Those injuries attract OSHA’s attention and wind up as fines.
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Tags: conveyor, foot injury, repeat violation
A retailer faces a hefty OSHA fine for exit hazards. This citation also shows how the safety agency is currently using repeat violations against businesses with multiple locations.
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Tags: exit hazards, repeat violations, Toys R Us
Process safety management fines are commonly tied to chemical manufacturers or refineries. But this case shows any company with refrigeration units can be hit with process safety penalties.
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Tags: anhydrous ammonia, process safety management, refrigeration
Once OSHA finds significant safety violations at one facility, it’s likely to go after other locations owned by the same company.
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Tags: fast moving machinery, OSHA fines, Sims Bark, Sims Stone, struck by equipment
A Tyler, TX, construction company has been fined for the February death of an employee who was electrocuted while working on underground electrical lines.
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Tags: employee electrocution, rubber-insulated gloves, underground electrical lines
The head of Oregon OSHA has suggested raising fines for serious workplace safety violations. But some large companies say higher fines won’t make them any safer.
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Tags: ConAgra, higher OSHA fines, Oregon OSHA
OSHA will issue willful violations when it believes a company has ignored well established regulations.
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Tags: ammonia storage, Sinton Dairy Foods, willful violation
It’s been a little over a year since the feds announced the third-largest penalty in OSHA history.
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Tags: combustible dust, fines, Imperial Sugar, OSHA, settlements
New regulations; accidents with multiple fatalities; the President-elect’s take on what OSHA should be doing. What is the top safety story of 2008?
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Tags: new regulations, Obama, OSHA, top 10
A federal investigation appears to show that Imperial Sugar Co. didn’t train many workers at its Port Wentworth plant about how to escape during an emergency.
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Tags: federal investigation, Imperial Sugar explosion, OSHA investigation Imperial Sugar
Which fine is larger: One from OSHA involving two worker deaths or a Gaming Control Board fine against a Las Vegas casino for underage drinking and drug use?
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Tags: Las Vegas Sun, Nevada OSHA, OSHA fine
An Ohio furniture manufacturer faces stiff fines from OSHA. Many of the violations involve alleged combustible dust hazards at the plant.
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Tags: Ameriwood Industries, combustible dust hazards, OSHA combustible dust
OSHA is two-thirds of the way through the federal 2009 fiscal year. How are inspections stacking up this year?
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Tags: ASSE, high incident rates, OSHA inspections
OSHA takes employee safety complaints seriously, especially when a company has a record of previous infractions.
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Tags: employee safety complaints, Milk Specialties Co., seven-figure OSHA fine
Tyson Foods will pay a $500,000 fine for willfully violating safety regulations that led a worker to be overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes and later die.
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Tags: criminal fine, hydrogen sulfide, Tyson Foods
UCLA has paid $31,875 in fines and taken corrective steps after a lab fire that claimed the life of an employee. But now, the university wants to appeal the citation for a technical reason.
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Tags: Cal-OSHA fine, Sheri Sangji, UCLA fatal fire
While it didn’t cite Wal-Mart for a violation of a specific standard, OSHA has used its General Duty Clause to fine the retailer in the trampling death of a worker last November.
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Tags: OSHA General Duty Clause, Wal-Mart fined, Wal-Mart worker crushed to death
A company in Barboursville, WV, faces $56,250 in OSHA fines following a fatality at the plant earlier this year.
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Tags: blocked exit routes, machine guards, worker pulled into lathe
OSHA has proposed $99,000 in fines against a stamping company after an employee’s hand was crushed while operating a 75-ton mechanical power press.
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You know OSHA will send inspectors to a facility when there is a fatality or multiple serious injuries. But chemicals leaks will also bring inspectors calling.
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Tags: chlorine leak, Metalor Technologies, process safety management
Backed by more solid majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats have reintroduced the Protecting America’s Workers Act which aims to expand OSHA’s reach and increase the penalties it can issue for safety and health violations.
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Tags: H.R. 2067, increase OSHA fines, Protecting America's Workers Act
The Washington state Department of Labor & Industries and Tacoma Goodwill have reached a settlement in the workplace death of a developmentally disabled worker.
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Tags: accident prevention program, box tipping machine, developmentally disabled worker
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board says failure to follow proper chemical process safety management caused an explosion in West Virginia last year that killed two employees. One of the workers was hospitalized 41 days with burns before he died.
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Tags: Bayer CropScience explosion, process safety management, workaround
Not only is this a bizarre OSHA fine, it could set a dangerous precedent. The agency has fined a company for an employee’s fatal injury that happened while he was away from his home office on assignment.
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Tags: bizarre OSHA fine, Buffalo All High Stadium, Buffalo News
When OSHA inspects scaffolding, it’s not enough to have erected it properly. The agency also looks at the integrity of the component parts.
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Tags: Fatality, safety violations, scaffold, scaffolding collapse
An OSHA fine isn’t always the only penalty a company can expect from the government when it experiences a workplace fatality.
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Tags: criminal charge, suffocation, worker's death
When companies fail to correct violations found during inspections, they can expect OSHA to hit them with heavy fines after a re-inspection.
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Tags: audiograms, combustible dust, failure to correct violations, heavy fines, re-inspection
A construction company is appealing a fine from California’s OSHA in the wake of a double fatality.
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Tags: construction, double fatal, drowned, OSHA fine
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