Saying “safety is simply not a priority” for this company, OSHA has fined a Missouri firm $189,000 after it experienced its third worker death in five years. The most recent death involved a motor vehicle.
Q: How do you hide an entire production line from OSHA?
A formal complaint from the United Steelworkers Union sent OSHA to Republic Steel’s Canton, Ohio, plant. Result: $1,138,500 in fines for 24 violations.
Repeat violations have added up for this Ohio company. Its OSHA fines in 2015 now total more than $1.87 million.
For the second time in a week, OSHA has issued a significant six-figure fine against a construction company based in Texas.
A company’s decision to overload bins on its roof directly led to the deaths of two workers and injuries suffered by nine others, according to OSHA.
OSHA says U.S. Steel Corp. took safety shortcuts at its Fairfield, AL, facility and that led to two deaths.
An investigative report by ProPublica and PBS “Frontline” points out that many large companies have a simple way to avoid OSHA regulations, enforcement and penalties: Hire subcontractors to do dangerous work.
In 2010, OSHA established its Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) to concentrate the agency’s resources on inspecting employers that have demonstrated indifference to their OSH Act obligations by committing willful, repeat or failure-to-abate violations. It replaced the Enhanced Enforcement Program. The violations must include one or more of the following circumstances: a fatality or three […]
OSHA says it issued large fines to this company because of the seriousness of the violations and the recurring nature of the hazards. An injured worker and a complaint brought OSHA to the firm’s work sites.
Getting fined by OSHA once is bad enough. Get caught violating the same regulations again, and the fines just get more expensive. This company learned that the hard way.
An analysis of OSHA enforcement during the first two years of the Obama administration shows how the agency has changed its enforcement tactics compared to the Bush years.
A safety manager charged with covering up information about an employee’s death at the company’s Ohio plant was sentenced to three months of home confinement.
Safety incentives and injury reporting; an update on OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program; an unintended consequence of safer cars; and how does your body measure up to those of Olympic athletes? It’s all in this week’s Safety News Summary.
A Pennsylvania shooting range is out $135K after OSHA discovered lead and noise hazards. OSHA also placed the company in its Severe Violator Enforcement Program.
Publix Supermarkets faces $182,000 in OSHA fines in connection with the amputation of an employee’s hand.
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