OSHA alleges safety violations at MillerCoors

Regulators have proposed fining MillerCoors $128,500 over alleged safety violations at its brewery in Golden.

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Obama nominates OSHA head

The White House says President Barack Obama plans to nominate an epidemiologist to head the government's workplace safety agency.

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House votes to require new dust standards

Workers would get new protections from combustible dust explosions like the one that killed 13 people in a Georgia factory in February under legislation passed by the House on Wednesday.

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Democratic senators want tougher OSHA penalties

People can get more prison time for mail fraud than for violating safety standards that can kill workers, Democratic senators said Tuesday as they called for tougher punishment for workplace fatalities and stricter enforcement from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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9/11 Autopsy Guidelines Plan Abandoned

An effort to create standard autopsy guidelines that could document a link between toxic air at ground zero and deaths of 9/11 rescue workers has been abandoned by the federal government amid concerns the information collected could be misinterpreted.

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People entering their 60s appear more disabled today than in prior generations, signaling a potential wave of disabled baby boomers to come, researchers said.

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- An MJ Electric worker who was badly burned Saturday while working on a power line has died, Florence County Sheriff Jeff Rickaby has confirmed this morning.

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Three workers at a waste transfer station in Queens were overcome by toxic fumes Monday afternoon and died, apparently falling one after another into the Stygian gloom of a putrid, manhole-size, 18-foot-deep well they were trying to vacuum, fire officials said.

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A great free guide for shops, plants, offices, facilities or anywhere to insure safety and increase productivity, available from Graphic Products.

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Authorities have recovered the body of a subcontractor who slipped and fell into a 55-foot well at a landfill in south DeKalb County.

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Six workers were injured, including four who were initially reported in critical condition, in an explosion about 11 a.m. today at the We Energies plant in Oak Creek.

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Safety is for sale in the dimly lit Aqueduct North bar in the far reaches of a New York City Bourough..Last Sunday, a group of hardhats, one of which was an undercover New York Daily News reporter, hunkered down for what was supposed to be 10 hours of crucial construction safety  …

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Worker Abuses & A New Obama Administration

Since the Labor Department has been under the power of the Bush administration for the past 8 years, numerous policies designed to protect workers have been reversed, weakened, or erased from the books in order to protect big business from being fined.

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They were teenagers with jobs at South Florida malls — and undercover inspectors from the Department of Labor found their duties included operating machines that could hurt them, the agency announced Friday.

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Quote, "In 2006, Bush's first OSHA director, a former Monsanto employee was replaced by Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a South Carolina lawyer and former Bush fundraiser who spent years defending companies cited by OSHA for safety and health violations.

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Career officials say agency bowed to industry pressure on many workplace health regulations.

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Story by Karen Kiley Email | Bio | Other Stories by Karen Kiley FAIRMONT -- An accident, Tuesday afternoon in Fairmont, killed a construction worker.

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Sep. 19--State safety investigators ordered two city employees out of a 14-foot deep trench with no shoring Thursday afternoon and shut down the job for safety reasons.

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This case illustrates in stark terms that failure to follow required procedures can have wide-ranging and catastrophic consequences," Edwin G. Foulke Jr., the assistant secretary of labor for OSHA, said in a statement.

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OSHA cited Overhead Door Corp.'s Athens plant. It said that in recent inspections it found machines operating without proper guards and a lack of switches that keep machinery from being turn on by accident.

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A thirty-seven-year old construction worker of Fargo died after falling 43 feet down an elevator. The proposed fines total more than $22,000.

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After one Cintas employee died in a gruesome incident in March of 2007, the company still has a long way to go to improve overall worker safety.

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The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Midwest Petroleum and Excavating Inc. in Benton for alleged willful and serious violations of federal workplace safety standards.

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The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) recently released a new draft of an ergonomics standard that faces an uncertain ride through the legislative process.

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The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined Pike Electric for violations found at a site in Mobile, Alabama after an employee was injured in a serious trench collapse.

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Workplace safety has hardly been a major topic on the campaign trail or at the recent Democratic and Republican national conventions. But some prominent worker advocates think the issue could appeal to workers and help draw distinctions between the presidential candidates.

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A supplier to Montgomery's Hyundai plant is facing $94,500 in fines for 11 federal safety violations, including one that resulted in an employee losing parts of two fingers.

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A.M. Stern Inc. was cited for five alleged repeat violations of safety standards following an OSHA inspection on June 24 when an inspector observed employees working without fall protection while performing roofing work atop Ontario Hall.

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Public works employees who handled contaminated material from a Riverdale Avenue lot may have contracted medical problems from the exposure.

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