A general contractor and its owner have each been charged with one count of willful violation of OSHA regulations resulting in death after a fatal incident involving a collapsed concrete wall. Finbar O’Neill, of Paramus, New Jersey, and his general contractor company, OneKey LLC, were charged with violating OSHA regulations resulting in death. The company […]
After seeing an increase in child labor law violations in 2021 and 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is cracking down on employers who jeopardize the safety of teen workers. DOL’s Wage and Hour Division investigated three teen worker fatalities in 2021 and another in May 2022. In fiscal year 2021 alone, the division […]
A Washington auto repair shop owner was caught in a workers’ compensation scam for the second time in six years and has pleaded guilty to the crime. Rodney Dietrich, owner of Rod’s Cars, was sentenced to 30 days of electronic home monitoring after pleading guilty to doing business without workers’ compensation insurance for the second […]
The owner of two California farm labor companies was sentenced July 12 to 90 days in jail and 24 months of felony probation for workers’ comp fraud. Robert Delara previously pleaded guilty on March 29 to multiple counts of felony workers’ compensation fraud and admitted a special allegation that the theft totaled more than $100,000, […]
A federal appeals court found that Tyson Foods was not acting under the direction of the federal government during the pandemic, meaning it is not protected from a lawsuit filed by employees who contracted COVID-19 at work. Several employees who contracted COVID-19 while working at two Tyson plants in Texas, along with the families of […]
When is an uncontrolled release of a hazardous substance not an uncontrolled release? When it doesn’t fall under the definition of uncontrolled in the HAZWOPER standard, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In a ruling upholding an Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) decision, the court found the term […]
A demolition contractor in Georgia is in trouble with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) after instructing three teens to work around dynamite. Controlled Blasting Inc. allowed three 16- and 17-year-old employees to work in an area where explosives were stored and transported and directed them to drill and cover holes where dynamite was placed […]
An injured worker who fell through an open manhole while attempting to step over it is entitled to summary judgment under a New York Labor Law claim, according to the state’s appeals court. The appeals court found there were issues of fact surrounding how far the general contractor at the worksite went to ensure the […]
A Tennessee restaurant is in hot water with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) after an investigation into a teen worker’s thumb injury found child labor law violations. An investigation by the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division found that Deli & Byung OG NA, operating as Schlotzky’s Deli of Memphis, allowed 16- and 17-year-old workers […]
