Cal/OSHA has issued 16 citations totaling $166,890 to a recycling company in connection with the deaths of two brothers in a storm drain system.

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Tags: confined space, hydrogen sulfide gas, recycling, storm drain

OSHA has fined a suburban St. Louis recycling company $195,930 in connection with the death of a worker who had been trying to clear a jam in a baler machine.

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Tags: baler, clear a jam, lock out and tag out, powered industrial trucks, recycling

OSHA has fined a Rochester, NY, recycling company in connection with the June death of an employee inside a compactor.

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Tags: compactor, crushed to death, lockout/tagout, recycling, repeat violations