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

A worker’s complaint brought OSHA to a Houston company. The complaint was substantiated, and OSHA found even more violations that added up to a hefty fine because the company had been cited for them before.

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Tags: machine guards, Severe Violator Enforcement Program, willful violations, worker complaint

A company removed guards from a shredder, assigned an underage employee to use it and didn’t train him. The teen was crushed to death in the shredder. Does the teen’s family have a case for wrongful death, or are they limited to workers’ comp death benefits?

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Tags: killed in shredder, machine guards, underage employee, Workers' comp, wrongful 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