The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed penalties totaling $45,000 for Zamco Inc., a cabinetry company in St. Hedwig, Texas, for 14 safety and health violations involving electrical, respiratory, and other work hazards. OSHA’s San Antonio Area office sent in an inspection team this February as part of the…

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has determined that Cleveland Cement Contractors Inc. had committed six serious safety violations, including noncompliance with design and construction standards, after the worksite-safety watchdog’s investigation of the partial collapse of a second-floor parking garage during concrete placement in December last year. The collapse, fortunately,…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has found Johnson Controls Battery Group Inc. to have committed 11 health violations, including one willful and two repeat infractions, after the worksite-safety watchdog’s inspection of the company’s battery plant in Holland, Ohio. OSHA has proposed a total penalty of $188,600. Despite OSHACampus 10 training and OSHACampus 30 training…

Chemical poisoning is the last thing one expects from a restaurant, but that was exactly what happened in a South Charleston, W.Va. restaurant, where nine employees had to be taken to the hospital after being exposed to chlorine gas. Despite OSHA training qualifications such as OSHACampus 10 training and OSHACampus 30 training now being required…

Following an accident in November last year that resulted in a worker’s death, OSHA filed three citations against Adams Thermal Systems Inc., an engine-cooling-systems manufacturing facility in Canton, S.D., for willful safety violations that gravely compromised the safety of some of its workers. Despite OSHA 10 hour training and 30 Hour OSHA training course (both…

OSHA has levied a total proposed penalty of $147,000 on New England Wood Pellet LLC for workplace violations that endangered the safety and lives of its workers, following a fire at its plant last year. Although OSHA 10 hour training and OSHA 30 course (both online OSHA training) are now pre-employment requirements, many workers are…

OSHA has cited Massachusetts-based American Biltrite Inc. for work-safety and health violations that have resulted in the death of one of its employees. The victim, according to a subsequent OSHA investigation, was crushed in a coating machine while trying to fix a jammed equipment. OSHA pointed to the company’s failure to use “lockout/tagout” procedures before…

OSHA has cited American Building LLC, a steel-erection contractor, for work-safety violations that resulted in the accidental fall and death of one of its workers at a construction site in Stamford, Cincinnati. The fatal accident happened last Oct. 25, 2011 during the installation of metal roofing onto a prefab building. The victim fell 35 feet…

The hazard from combustible dust cannot be underestimated—not when it endangers life and limb and results in huge penalties from work-safety watchdog Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which recently proposed penalties totaling $191,700 for Alabama Farmers Cooperative Inc. for 17 safety and health violations, including exposing its workers to combustible dust. OSHA courses, such…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed a total of $231,000 in penalties for Gilster-Mary Lee Corp., a food manufacturer based in Illinois, for six safety violations, three of them willful ones, that resulted in two maintenance workers suffering serious burns to their upper bodies following an explosion inside a dust collector last…

The drill is simple: have personnel wear protective gear and provide proper safety training. But all across America employers continue to put their worker in danger because of negligence or ignorance. Ohio-based automotive-parts company American Showa Inc. received 13 safety and health violations, including two willful violations, from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…

As the tornado season swirls in this year, touching down early this April with a rash of twisters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has enjoined employers, recovery workers, and the public to always put safety and caution first during cleanup operations. The work-safety watchdog is on the ground…

For failing to protect its workers from exposure to asbestos, a dangerous and well-known carcinogen in industry and construction, Illinois-based A.M. Castle & Co. received 22 serious health-violation citations from the government work-safety watchdog, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), following a complaint. A total penalty of $127,600 has been proposed. Even though OSHA courses—for…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was certainly no chicken when it proposed a whopping $187,100 in penalties for 11 safety violations by poultry processor KD Acquisition I LLC (Coleman Natural Foods). The agency launched an investigation after receiving a complaint in September last year over safety concerns. Although OSHA courses, such as OSHA 10…

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has levied seven serious safety and health violations on Magnablend Inc., a company specializing in the blending and manufacturing of chemicals for the industrial and consumer markets, for an October 2011 chemical fire that razed the company’s blending plant in Waxahachie, Texas to the ground. OSHA proposed penalties totaling…