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

Earlier this year, a review panel addressed OSHA’s ability to issue fines for not having injury records that date back from more than the current year. Now OSHA has used its new authority to level an additional $40,000 in fines to one company.

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Tags: amputations, OSHRC, Recordkeeping, willful violation

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

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