Worker crushed to death in machine: $540K OSHA settlement
A food manufacturer in Massachusetts has agreed to pay $540,000 in OSHA fines in connection with a fatality. An employee was crushed to death in a machine used to make hummus.
A food manufacturer in Massachusetts has agreed to pay $540,000 in OSHA fines in connection with a fatality. An employee was crushed to death in a machine used to make hummus.
Saying the employer knew workers had to be trained on lockout/tagout, OSHA has issued $702,300 in fines against a food manufacturer in connection with the death of an employee who was crushed to death in a machine used to make hummus.
“A worker’s first day at work shouldn’t be his last day on earth,” said OSHA administrator David Michaels about a 21-year-old temporary worker who was crushed to death his first day on the job. (Updated Feb. 14 with statement from Bacardi.)
An Alabama auto-parts manufacturer was ordered Nov. 9 to pay $1 million to the estate of an employee who was crushed to death by a robotic arm. The company, which pleaded guilty to a willful lockout/tagout violation, was also ordered to pay a $500,000 OSHA fine and serve a three-year probation period with weekly inspections […]
Attention, those who believe that OSHA has gone overboard with its workplace safety regulations: You’ve got one less fact to support your argument. When all is said and done, the final count of worker fatalities in 2010 will be higher than in 2009.
Here’s a reminder for workers: When they realize a mistake has been made, they need to take all necessary safety precautions while correcting the error, even if it takes more time. Anything else can prove fatal.
When workers don’t report injuries right away and then apply for workers’ comp benefits, it often raises a red flag. With conflicting testimony, these cases often come down to which side the court finds more believable.
In this state, if a worker refuses a drug test after a workplace injury, he’s presumed to be intoxicated and workers’ comp benefits can be denied. But in this case, the worker didn’t take the drug test and he got benefits anyway. Why did a court allow the worker to receive benefits?
An employer’s failure to ensure that employees turned equipment off before performing maintenance led to a fatality, according to a federal report. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) investigated the incident that saw a 24-year-old worker killed when he became entangled in a rotating drill steel while changing out the steel on a […]
A failure to abide by OSHA’s lockout/tagout and confined space regulations resulted in the death of a plant manager inside a kiln. Now the company has to pay a huge fine.
OSHA has issued 23 violations to Haverhill Chemicals in connection with a worker’s death at its Ohio plant. Many of the violations involve OSHA’s Process Safety Management Standards.
Here’s a reminder about the importance of guarding against slip-and-falls.
As winter arrives, it’s a good time to remind workers not to start gas-powered engines in enclosed spaces. The result is too often fatal.
OSHA has issued 12 serious citations to a chemical manufacturer in Nitro, WV, in connection with the asphyxiation death from nitrogen of a worker in June 2012.
An investigation following the death of one worker and the hospitalization of another results in 12 violations against a manufacturing company. The problem: chemical exposure.
Federal OSHA doesn’t have a heat stress standard. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be cited for failing to have a heat stress plan.