An employee blatantly violates one of your safety rules and causes an injury. Should you have to pay an OSHA fine for that? [Read more…]
Off-road vehicle injury: Will OSHA fine stick, or was this unpreventable misconduct?
December 1, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Court throws out half-million dollar OSHA fine in worker fatality
October 19, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Calling the citations against the company “an unprecedented interpretation,” a U.S. appeals court has thrown out a $490,000 OSHA fine against a company in a case where a lathe ejected a 12-pound workpiece that struck and killed an employee. [Read more…]
Judge upholds OSHA fine in fatal ‘Midnight Rider’ filming fatality
September 17, 2015 By Leave a Comment
An administrative law judge has upheld an OSHA fine against a film company in connection with the death of camera assistant during a location shoot for the film Midnight Rider in 2014. [Read more…]
2 amputations in less than 2 weeks: $141K in OSHA fines
September 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment
OSHA visited this company because a worker had two fingers amputated while working on shearing machines. While the inspector was there, company officials said a second worker suffered an identical injury just days after the first one. [Read more…]
OSHA fines company for each worker exposed to fall hazards: $367K total
July 23, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Here’s one way a company can be sure to get a big OSHA fine: Deny protective gear to a worker, cause the worker to suffer serious injuries and then fail to promptly report the incident. [Read more…]
Worker trapped in sand up to neck - court upholds $70K OSHA fine
May 19, 2015 By 1 Comment
An Illinois company asked a federal court to review two OSHA violations and a $70,000 fine issued after a worker was trapped in a sand bin for more than five hours. The court recently answered the request for review:
Wal-Mart drops appeal of trampling death fine, says it’ll pay
March 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Wal-Mart says it’ll pay a $7,000 OSHA fine in connection with the 2008 trampling death of a store employee. This ends a six-year fight by the retail giant against the General Duty Clause (GDC) citation. [Read more…]
Court: OSHA fine was based on worker’s lie
February 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment
The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission recently overturned an OSHA fine issued to a company in connection with a worker injury. OSHRC found OSHA relied upon questionable statements from the employee to issue the violation. [Read more…]
Worker’s hand caught in machine on 25th birthday; $241K in OSHA fines
December 12, 2014 By 1 Comment
We’d all like our birthdays to be memorable … but not for this reason. Following an employee’s injury, OSHA issued almost a quarter-million dollars in fines against this company. [Read more…]
Worker dies in confined space; $188K OSHA fine
December 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
A worker who was cleaning inside a confined space (a rail car) collapsed and later died. OSHA says his employer didn’t have equipment or trained personnel to properly rescue the employee. [Read more…]
