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Workers at IPMF LLC exposed to dangerous machine parts
Nov. 2, 2015 Workers at IPMF LLC exposed to dangerous machine partsEmployer name: IPMF LLC operating as IPM Foods, Beloit, Wisconsin Citations received: Oct. 30, 2015 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Madison Area Office cited the food product manufacturer for one willful, 12 serious and one other-than-serious safety …
Dollar General Corp. continues to expose employees to workplace safety and health hazards
Oct. 29, 2015 Dollar General Corp. continues to expose employees to workplace safety and health hazards at store in Hamburg, Pennsylvania Company fined more than $113K following OSHA investigationEmployer name: Dollar General Corp. is headquartered at 100 Mission Ridge in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The inspected store is located at 700 South 4th Street, Hamburg, Pa. Citations …
Bizarre Death: Cryotherapy Center Manager ‘Frozen to Death’ Inside Chamber
A local coroner’s office is looking into the bizarre death of a cryotherapy center manager in Henderson, NV. Reports say the 24-year-old employee was “frozen to death.” Reports in Las Vegas media say Chelsea Ake-Salvacion died in a cryotherapy chamber. She’d been a manager at Rejuvenice, a business that provides facials and whole-body cryotherapy which …
Ashley Furniture’s OSHA Fines Now Total Almost $2.3 Million in 2015
For the third time this year, OSHA has issued citations and fines to Ashley Furniture. The focus this time: failing to protect workers from moving machine parts. The new fines for violations at Ashley’s Whitehall, WI, facility total $431,000. In January, OSHA issued almost $1.77 million in fines for 38 violations after an investigation at …
Companies Ignore Stop-work Order; Now They Face $305K in Fines
When Cal/OSHA inspectors found an 11-foot unshored excavation at a construction site, the agency issued a stop-work order the same day. Three weeks later, work restarted despite failure to correct the hazards. Now two companies face large fines. Cal/OSHA has cited general contractor EMI Design & Construction Inc. of San Mateo with 10 safety violations, …
Is Reg to Put Companies’ Injury Data Online About to Become Reality?
A regulation to revise how companies report injury data to OSHA is one step closer to reality. The rule would also make companies’ injury data available online to the public. OSHA’s “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” draft final rule arrived at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on Oct. 5. The proposal …
Court Throws Out Half-Million Dollar OSHA Fine in Worker Fatality
Calling the citations against the company “an unprecedented interpretation,” a U.S. appeals court has thrown out a $490,000 OSHA fine against a company in a case where a lathe ejected a 12-pound workpiece that struck and killed an employee. A lathe operator at Loren Cook Co. was killed when a rotating metal object broke free …
Young Workers Mangled then Fired by Employers After Amputations
Chicken processor Case Farms has racked up more than $1.4M in OSHA penalties in 2015 for worker safety and health violations, including several that caused a teenaged worker to suffer the amputation of his lower leg and his young co-worker to lose fingers. “A teenager’s life has been forever altered because of a devastating leg …