The Washington Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) cited the employer for one willful violation and 28 serious violations of workplace safety regulations. The Columbia Cedar mill in Kettle Falls, Wash., has been fined $151,800 for 29 safety violations after a worker was seriously hurt while trying to clear bark from a hopper. A single
Read more →A Purdue professor offers suggestions to keep flu out of workplace. A report published in the Jan. 16th edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) estimates that this season’s flu vaccine reduced a person’s risk of going to the doctor because of flu by 23 percent for all ages, making it one of
Read more →ARCO National Construction also received citations for serious hazards.
Read more →OSHA cited four companies following a blast that killed a temporary worker and critically injures a second at the Omega Protein plant. Two temporary workers hired to cut and weld pipes at the Omega Protein plant in Moss Point, Miss., on July 28, 2014, had no idea that the storage tank beneath them contained methane
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