June 24, 2011 by Fred Hosier
OSHA wants to make significant changes to its injury reporting regulations. One involves which companies have to report. The other involves the situations that have to be reported.
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Tags: amputations, fatalities, hospitalization, industrial classification, injury reporting
June 17, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Once again, OSHA has proposed a million-dollar fine for an employer with a history of violations.
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Tags: amputation, fall hazards, Severe Violator Enforcement Program
April 25, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Q: When is workers’ compensation, the so-called “exclusive remedy” for employee injuries, not an exclusive remedy? A: When the injured employee can prove the company knew an injury was likely to occur.
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Tags: exclusive remedy, forklift, injury likely to occur, light duty, scissors lift, ThyssenKrupp, Workers' comp
March 22, 2011 by Fred Hosier
A worker at the Port of Oakland in California lost both her legs after being run over by a container lift that weighed several tons.
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Tags: CAL-OSHA, double amputation, lift truck
February 21, 2011 by Fred Hosier
A lawsuit in Florida alleges that lack of machine guarding left an employee disfigured.
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Tags: contract worker, lawsuit, machine guarding, severed
September 29, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Imagine this: Nine workers at one company suffer various types of amputations, ranging from part of a finger to most of an arm, yet the company has avoided paying large fines in many of the cases.
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Tags: amputations, Bimbo Bakeries, Cal/OSHA, large fines
September 27, 2010 by Fred Hosier
This story is a good reminder of the hazards when machines are shut down for cleaning, maintenance or to clear debris.
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Tags: cleaning, leg amputated, maintenance, trapped in machine
September 20, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Of course, no one wants an amputation or a tooth knocked out at work. But, it pays to have the right information on what to do, just in case. But some of the conventional wisdom on what to do turns out to be wrong.
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Tags: amputations, eyeball, finger cut off, tooth knocked out
September 9, 2010 by Fred Hosier
An Alabama company faces more than $3 million in OSHA fines for exposing workers to amputation hazards and other problems at two plants. When it comes to punishing the company, OSHA didn’t stop there.
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Tags: $3 million OSHA fine, amputation hazards, condemned by OSHA, regulation by shaming, Whitesell Corp.
September 8, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Quick recovery of a severed body part helps increase the odds of successful reattachment. But the body part isn’t always lying right where the incident took place.
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Tags: lawnmower, severed body part, severed finger
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