Should the federal government use a plea agreement reached in connection with a Colorado worker’s death as a template for similar cases involving fatalities?

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Tags: asphyxiation, engulfed by grain, Safety training, Tempel Grain Elevator, victim's family

Even if your company isn’t in transportation, some items on the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) Most Wanted List of 10 safety issues are easily applicable to all sorts of industries.

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Tags: fatigue, i2p2, Most Wanted List, NTSB, safety management systems

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in New York City. It’s been called an event that fundamentally changed U.S. workplace conditions. But have workplace safety attitudes really changed in 100 years?

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Tags: BP, fire safety, immigrants, safety attitudes, safety too costly, Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Upper Big Branch mine, workplace conditions

In the nation’s first criminal prosecution involving the heat-related death of a farm worker, a plea agreement has resulted in small fines, probation and community service time for two supervisors.

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Tags: criminal prosecution, death of pregnant employee, working in hot weather

Calling the fatalities “unconscionable,” Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has announced more than $1.3 million in fines against two companies for three employee deaths in grain elevators.

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Tags: child labor regulations, grain elevator deaths, Hilda Solis

You might not list long johns as safety gear. But a teenager is glad he was wearing his at work — they saved him from serious injury.

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Tags: apprentice, industrial sander, long johns, thermal underwear

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 few months ago, we told you about a 14-year-old high school freshman who was pulled into a wood chipper and killed while working for a lawn-care company. The teen had been living with the company’s owner. Now, the Virginia Dept. of Labor and Industry has decided on a penalty.

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Tags: killed in wood chipper, teen's death, Virginia Dept. of Labor and Industry

An employee of a woodworking business is hospitalized in intensive care after a piece of wood pierced his chest and exited his back.

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Tags: American Wood Source, impaled by piece of wood, impalement injuries

Emergency crews worked for more than three hours to rescue a 15-year-old from inside an auger which is used to grind up mulch.

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Tags: prohibited occupations for teenagers, Summerford Pallet, teen falls into auger

A 17-year-old worker at a grain elevator in Haswell, CO, was killed after being buried alive in a grain bin.

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Tags: buried alive in grain, entrapment in a bin, stored loose materials

OSHA is investigating an incident in Omaha, NE, in which a 17-year-old boy died after a forklift he was operating fell on top of him.

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Tags: forklift accident, forklift operator, jobs teens can and can't do