OSHA QuickCard Focuses on Safety in Marine Cargo Handling Operations
Feb. 1, 2010 Contact: Office of Communications Phone: 202-693-1999 OSHA QuickCards™ focus on safety in marine cargo handling operations The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently...
View ArticleOSHA cites VT Halter Marine more than $1.3 million for willfully exposing...
JACKSON, Miss. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined VT Halter Marine Inc., a shipbuilder, for $1,322,000 following a November 2009 explosion and fire...
View ArticleFailure to Train Workers in Lockout Tagout Brings Healthy Fines for Food...
The Bridgford Foods Processing Corp. facility in Chicago Illinois is hit with 10 OSHA citations and $212,000 in penalties for failing to implement and provide training for workers on lockout/tagout...
View ArticleOSHA to Update Requirements for Head Protection
Direct final rule published in Federal Register For those workers in general industry, shipyard employment, longshoring, and marine terminals, head protection requirements are in the process of being...
View ArticleWorker Crushed to Death by Shipping Container – OSHA Citations Issued
OSHA has cited stevedoring services company SSA Marine with five safety violations – including one willful – following an investigation into the January 19th death of a worker at the Port of Long...
View ArticleArmy Test Center put on notice
Unsafe workplace conditions alleged after worker fatality The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued notices to the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Test Center regarding...
View ArticleDrowning Death Investigation nets 22 OSHA Violations and Nearly $300k in Fines
Lucas Marine Acquisition Co. cited by OSHA following worker fatality at City of Fort Pierce Marina. Employee fatality was second in five months for company FORT PIERCE, Fla. – Following the drowning...
View ArticleShipyard Faces Nearly $1.4M in Penalties for Exposing Workers to Lead and...
OSHA finds workers exposed to lead at levels up to 20 times the permissible exposure limit SUPERIOR, Wisconsin – Federal health inspectors found Fraser Shipyards Inc. overexposed workers to lead...
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