Thursday, 23 August 2012
OSHA proposes $82,500 in fines to chemical manufacturer for workplace hazards at Newark, NJ, facility
2012 - 08/17/2012 - US Labor Department's OSHA proposes $82,500 in fines to chemical manufacturer for workplace hazards at Newark, NJ, facility: NEWARK, N.J. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Cardolite Corp. with one willful and 13 serious health and safety violations for exposing workers to chemical and other hazards at the company's Newark facility. OSHA initiated its March investigation in response to a complaint and also as part of the agency's national emphasis program on process safety management for covered chemical facilities. Proposed penalties total $82,500.
OSHA cites Waste Management and Labor Ready Northeast after June heat fatality in New Jersey
2012 - 08/22/2012 - US Labor Department's OSHA cites Waste Management and Labor Ready Northeast after June heat fatality in New Jersey: MARLTON, N.J. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Waste Management of Trenton and Labor Ready Northeast Inc. of Ewing for one serious violation each of OSHA's general duty clause following a heat-related fatality in June. OSHA initiated an inspection after a Labor Ready Northeast temporary employee working for Waste Management as a garbage collection worker died while picking up trash on a collection route in Hopewell Borough.
Worker badly burned by steam - Austrian Times
Worker badly burned by steam - General News - Austrian Times Online News - English Newspaper: A cleaning worker was left badly burned after a valve on a steam cleaner was not closed properly leaving him blasted with super heated steam and leaving him baldy burned in Krems, Lower Austria.
The 43-year-old man who works for a transport company was cleaning a tanker with a steam cleaner.
The 43-year-old man who works for a transport company was cleaning a tanker with a steam cleaner.
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Farmers Can Sue Over Toxic Plant Mixture
(CN) - The 8th Circuit revived a lawsuit filed by Minnesota farmers who say a state employee mandated a toxic seed mixture on pasture land that caused their cattle to get sick and die. Three generations of cattle farmers -- Greg Herden, his son Garrett Herden and his father Roger Herden -- enrolled their three grazing pastures in a conservation program through the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service.
RR Workplace Safety Rules to Be Clarified
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Railroad Administration plans to clarify workplace safety regulations. FRA amendments to the Roadway Worker Protection regulation would be to define certain terms, establish new procedures for snow removal and cleaning on passenger station platforms, resolve miscellaneous interpretive issues, and codify certain FRA Technical Bulletins.
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