Jun. 26—Federal investigators said a construction contractor could have prevented an employee’s fatal fall at a Chenango County job site in December 2023. According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Labor, inspectors with the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found A.W. Stiles Contractors Inc. of McMinnville, Tennessee, failed to provide the […]
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Casar says OSHA will propose federal rule making outdoor workers safer from heat
Just over 12 years ago, José Lainez, a construction worker and Honduran immigrant, died while building a bridge between Austin’s U.S.183 and U.S. 290 under a beating June sun. Employed by the state, he wasn’t guaranteed the right to water breaks, and his family believes he died of heat exhaustion. U.S. Rep. Greg Casar helped […]
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NC farm cited for OSHA violations, ordered to pay fine after worker’s 2023 death
A Nash County sweet potato farm is being fined over $187,000 following the death of one of its workers last year, the North Carolina Department of Labor reported. The DOL began an inspection of state Occupational Safety and Health standards on Sept. 6, 2023, after the death of José Alberto Gonzalez Mendoza. Before his death, […]
Safety record of contractor for Boise collapsed hangar surfaces as OSHA investigates
Federal work site investigators examining the sudden collapse of a large steel frame under construction near the Boise Airport may need until this summer to determine the cause of the incident that killed three people and injured nine others, five of whom were in critical condition. City emergency responders Thursday turned over the mangled site […]
OSHA finds Mississippi slaughterhouse responsible for death of teen sucked into machinery
A Mississippi slaughterhouse that supplies chicken to Chick-fil-A is directly to blame for the death of a 16-year-old worker who was sucked into equipment in July and killed within minutes, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday. OSHA, an agency within the U.S. Labor Department, said that it had cited Georgia-based Mar-Jac Poultry for […]