OSHA News Releases – April 2015
April 2015
- - Region 5 OSHA News Release - Lack of proper safety controls leads to loss of worker's 3 fingers in metal press at stamping company, inspectors find
- - Region 5 OSHA Regional News Brief - OSHA again cites Tip Top Roofing for failing to provide workers fall protection
- - Region 5 OSHA Regional News Brief - Workers exposed to amputation hazards at Clearwater Paper Neenah
- - Region 5 OSHA Regional News Brief - Workers exposed to amputation hazards at Vista Window Company
- - Region 6 OSHA Regional News Brief - J and M Energy Services fined $60K for exposing workers to hazardous gas
- - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA unveils new 'It's The Law' poster
- - Region 8 OSHA Regional News Brief - Colorado utility installers expose workers to possible trench collapse
- - Region 2 OSHA News Release - Hotel soap and shampoo manufacturer faces fines of nearly $104K for exposing employees to dangerous chemical and fire hazards
- - Region 6 OSHA Regional News Brief - Oklahoma community honors Workers' Memorial Day at candlelight vigil April 28
- - Region 8 OSHA Regional News Brief - Workers at residential roofing site exposed to fall hazards
- - Region 8 OSHA Regional News Brief - OSHA pays tribute to workers killed on the job at Denver Workers' Memorial Day event, April 28
- - Region 1 OSHA News Release - Ringling Bros. to enhance safety for all aerial acts after settlement agreement
- - Region 3 OSHA News Release - Employer exposes 3 workers to asbestos dangers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- - Region 6 OSHA Regional News Brief - Steel wire producer exposes workers to amputation and lead hazards
- - Region 6 OSHA Regional News Brief - Trailer parts manufacturer exposed workers to multiple hazards
- - Region 4 OSHA News Release - Worker suffers broken wrist and lacerations while performing machine maintenance work at Atlanta's American Air Filter Co.
- - Region 4 OSHA Regional News Brief - Dupont Yard Inc. continues its history of exposing workers to hazardous workplace conditions at its Homerville, Georgia facility
- - Region 5 OSHA News Release - Tower workers' deaths could have been prevented with personal safety gear
- - Region 5 OSHA News Release - Metal siding manufacturer's workers still at risk of serious cuts, lacerations and amputations by machines at Elk Grove Village, Illinois, plant
- - Region 6 OSHA News Release - Dollar Tree Store endangers workers again in Texas
- - Region 1 OSHA Regional News Brief - Follow up OSHA inspections identify new and recurring hazards for employees at New Hampshire sign manufacturer
- - Region 4 OSHA News Release - Ocean Springs, Mississippi, contractor willfully ignores fall protection standards that lead to worker's death
- - Region 4 OSHA News Release - Worker electrocuted because his employer, Duke Energy Florida Inc., did not ensure safety procedures were followed
- - Region 4 OSHA News Release - Worker electrocuted because his employer, Duke Energy Florida Inc., did not ensure safety procedures were followed
- - Region 1 OSHA Regional News Brief - Allied Painting Inc. exposes employees to lead and fall hazards at Braga Bridge worksite in Fall River, Massachusetts
- - Region 4 OSHA Regional News Brief - Johnson Controls Battery Group again fails to monitor workers for lead exposure, faces OSHA penalties of $61K
- - Region 5 OSHA Regional News Brief - Metal Shredders cited for willful, serious safety violations in electrocution death of welder in Miamisburg, Ohio
- - Region 6 OSHA Regional News Brief - Metal fabricator cited for exposing workers to amputation hazards
- - Region 5 OSHA Regional News Brief - OSHA cites Julio Galindo for 6th time in 9 years for failing to provide fall protection to workers
- - Region 10 OSHA News Release - Two Idaho Falls, Idaho, area mechanics fatally crushed in separate incidents
- - OSHA National News Release - OSHA seeks comment on better protections for communication tower workers
- - Region 5 OSHA Regional News Brief - OSHA and Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries reach comprehensive settlement agreement over violations at foundry
- - Region 6 OSHA Regional News Brief - OSHA cites Formosa Plastics Corp., 6 subcontractors for exposing workers to chemical hazards at Point Comfort, Texas, worksite
- - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA and the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication renew alliance to reduce, prevent worker exposure to chemical hazards
- - Region 2 OSHA News Release - A. Hyatt Ball Co. Inc. exposes employees to fire, explosion, other hazards
- - Region 5 OSHA News Release - Chicago Dryer Co. fails to guard press brakes, operates damaged cranes carrying 3K-pound cylinders; OSHA proposes $171K in fines
- - Region 5 OSHA News Release - Worker loses fingertip on machine that lacked adequate safety controls
- - Region 5 OSHA News Release - Contractor exposes roofing workers to serious falls, respiratory hazards atop Housing Authority of Cook County building in Des Plaines, Illinois
- - Region 9 OSHA News Release - Union Pacific Railroad retaliates against another injured worker
- - Region 1 OSHA Regional News Brief - Southbury, Connecticut residential home builder exposes workers to potentially fatal fall hazards
- - OSHA National News Release - $3.5M in Susan Harwood safety and health training grants now available from US Labor Department
- - Region 1 OSHA Regional News Brief - Beacon Industries Inc. exposes employees to mechanical, electrical and other hazards at Newington, Conn., manufacturing plant
- - Region 4 OSHA News Release - Wood crate manufacturer fails to protect workers properly from excessive noise, hand injuries, dust hazards and other risks
- - OSHA Trade Release - OSHA and Airline Ground Safety Panel renew alliance to protect airline ground personnel
- - Region 1 OSHA News Release - Court orders dentist to pay $85K to employee fired for safety complaint
- - Region 8 OSHA News Release - OSHA says proper tank cleaning could have prevented worker's death
- - Region 4 OSHA Regional News Brief - OSHA cites Global Construction and Engineering Inc. for exposing workers to safety hazards at Center Point, Alabama work site
- - Region 6 OSHA Regional News Brief - Foundry workers exposed to numerous safety and health hazards
- - Region 1 OSHA News Release - Three Massachusetts roofers hospitalized after substandard scaffold breaks
- - Region 4 OSHA Regional News Brief - Safety Stand-Down events seek to raise awareness, reduce injuries and fatalities suffered by landscaping workers in the Southeast
- - Region 5 OSHA News Release - Workers risk 7-story fall while roofing Des Plaines, Illinois, condo building
- - Region 6 OSHA Regional News Brief - Workers at a Springtown, Texas-based natural gas processing facility exposed to safety hazards
- - Region 7 OSHA News Release - Metso Minerals exposes workers to serious hazards found in machine operations and welding steel
- - OSHA National News Release - OSHA updates guidance for protecting healthcare and social service workers from workplace violence
- - Region 4 OSHA Regional News Brief - OSHA cites South Carolina contractor for exposing workers to cave-in and struck-by hazards at work site in Pooler, Georgia
- - Region 5 OSHA News Release - Kroger allows forklift hazards at Columbus supermarket
- - Region 5 OSHA Regional News Brief - Workers exposed to asbestos hazards at A.M. Castle and Co. in Franklin Park
- - Region 7 OSHA News Release - Aluminum foundry exposes workers to chlorine gas and other hazards
- - Region 7 OSHA Regional News Brief - USPS mail processing center again cited by OSHA for fire extinguisher, electrical violations at St. Louis facility
- - Region 2 OSHA Regional News Brief - Lack of cave-in protections led to trench collapse, Bednar Landscape workers' deaths in Boonton
- - Region 5 OSHA Regional News Brief - USPS cited for electrical hazards at Chicago's Clark Street distribution center