Chemical Industry, Union Both Slam EPA’s Workplace Chemical Rule
Groups challenging the EPA’s proposed risk analysis for chemicals in the workplace asked a federal appeals court to set the rule aside while reviewing the merits of their cases.
Groups challenging the EPA’s proposed risk analysis for chemicals in the workplace asked a federal appeals court to set the rule aside while reviewing the merits of their cases.
Two people are dead and 35 are injured after a chemical release at a Houston area refinery owned by Mexico’s state oil company.
A Wisconsin recycling company was cited and fined for exposing employees to unsafe levels of lead and cadmium while they dismantled cathode ray tubes from older TVs, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Wednesday.
Judges and staffers at federal courthouses in Florida were still recovering from damage inflicted by Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago when they learned they’d have to evacuate for another major storm.
An influential Democrat wants to raise OSHA civil penalties to increase compliance with safety standards following a government watchdog report revealing an increase in injuries to warehouse workers.
A panel of Fifth Circuit judges appeared skeptical Tuesday of an OSHA citation related to the death of a worker caught in a machine that cuts chickens.
Agencies face an increasing number of lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of their administrative law judges, with some companies winning temporary enforcement reprieves as courts wrestle with litigation.
Bio-Lab Inc. is facing claims from more Georgia residents demanding redress for a recent chlorine release stemming from a factory fire.
A California warehouse staffing company failed to secure a chance to push a proposed wage-and-hour class action into arbitration after the US Supreme Court declined to reconsider a lower court’s ruling that a former worker’s job duties fall within a federal carveout for transportation workers.
What started as employees at Amazon’s ATL6 facility in Atlanta seeking working bathrooms and water fountains has grown to federal workplace safety hazard complaints with two federal agencies, according to a labor organizer connected to the effort.
As employers are making plans to return to their workplaces. How quickly they succeed will likely depend on how many of their employees get vaccinated.
Employer contests a four-item serious citation in 11 parts and $53,976 fine. The serious citation includes the alleged violation of 29.C.F.R. 1910.134(c)(1), for failure to establish and implement a written respiratory protection program with worksite-specific procedures; 29.C.F.R. 1910.134(e)(1), for failure to provide a medical evaluation to determine an employee’s ability to use a respirator before the employee was required to use the respirator in the workplace; and 29.C.F.R. 1910.134(f)(2), for failure to ensure that an employee using a tight-fitting face-piece respirator was fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator. (20-0329)
Employer contests a three-item serious citation and $6,998 fine and a repeat citation and $8,906 fine. The serious citation includes the alleged violation of 29.C.F.R. 1926.102(a)(1), for failure to ensure that eye and face protective equipment was used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury; 29.C.F.R. 1926.1053(b)(1), for failure to secure portable ladders used to access an upper landing surface against displacement; and 29.C.F.R. 1926.1053(b)(13), for failure to ensure that the top step of a stepladder was not used as a step. (20-0330)
Employer contests a two-item serious citation and $12,337 fine and a two-item other-than-serious citation with no fine. The serious citation includes the alleged violation of 29.C.F.R. 1910.36(d)(1), for failure to ensure that employees were able to open exit route doors from the inside at all times without keys, tools, or special knowledge; and 29.C.F.R. 1910.178(l)(4)(iii), for failure to conduct an evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator performance at least once every three years. The other-than-serious citation includes the alleged violation of 29.C.F.R. 1910.157(e)(3), for failure to perform annual maintenance checks on fire extinguishers. (20-0317)
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