A tour of the Baldor Electric in Belton, S.C., revealed a facility that cares about quality in terms of products, employee and contractor safety and stewardship of the facility. I always know I’m in a facility where people care when I don’t see spills on the floor, trash piled up near waste collection areas and …
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OSHA proposes $84K in fines for Tomra NY Recycling LLC
Nov. 13, 2015 Employee struck by forklift at Schenectady recycling facility OSHA proposes $84K in fines for Tomra NY Recycling LLC Employer name: Tomra NY Recycling LLC, 31 Opus Blvd., Schenectady, New York 12306 Reason for inspection: A worker at the company’s Schenectady recycling facility was operating a baler on May 14, 2015, when he …
SLC 2015: Goodbye LOTO- Bringing Productivity Back to Safety
“Safety doesn’t have to come at the expense of productivity.” If one were to boil down the Safety Technology track at EHS Today’s Safety Leadership Conference into one sentence, that would be it. It was a sentiment that was, of course, welcomed rather warmly by the crowds of EHS professionals in attendance, all of whom …
Is Your Company Ripe for a Serious Injury?
The absence of injuries does not denote the presence of safety. In fact, a series of near misses indicates a problem in your safety management. Here are some important safety factors that identify whether your shop is at heightened risk of a serious injury or fatality. Unlike others in your industry, you’ve never had a …
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 …
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 …
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 …