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Review forklift safety checklists every day

August 3, 2015

The job of a forklift operator is not an easy one. It comes with many concerns to be aware of – and safety should be at the top of the list.

Where is the safety at Safety Expos?

Larry Curtis CHSM

June 18, 2015

ISHM is proud and honored to be allowed to exhibit at several safety/trade shows/expos yearly. As with most vendors we arrive a day early and use most of the available time to set up our booth area.

Blast injures two at Illinois manufacturing plant

March 13, 2015

Two temporary workers injured in an explosion at Polychem Services Inc., were unable to return to work for months after being hospitalized with first- and second-degree burns after their work site was ignited by a gas-powered forklift.

Shipping co. exposes workers in multiple states to danger from defective forklifts

DOL: Company repeatedly ignored safety needs

February 19, 2015

Multiple inspections during the last several years by OSHA have found that Central Transport LLC has repeatedly left dangerously defective forklifts in service in at least 11 shipping terminals in nine states: Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Explosion injures four workers in St. Louis

Saia Motor Freight Line Co. operated forklifts with defective safety switches

February 16, 2015

Four employees were hospitalized, two of them in critical conditions, after an explosion at a St. Louis trucking terminal on Aug. 6, 2014. The explosion's cause: a forklift's ignition source and a loose coupling connection to a liquid propane gas tank.

Idaho steel manufacturer cited following fatal forklift accident

February 4, 2015

Ernesto Paramo never knew his shift on August 4 would be his last, leaving his family and friends to grieve his untimely death. The 30-year-old welder clocked in as he had many times before and then went to work at Superior Steel Products Inc.

Blast kills worker at fireworks storage facility

January 27, 2015

When two Lone Star Management LLC employees were directed to use a gas-powered forklift to move pallets of fireworks and cardboard out of an explosives storage facility, the gas ignited, causing an explosion and fire.

NYC supermarket worker crushed to death

Moisha’s Kosher Discount Supermarket cited for multiple hazards

January 2, 2015

A 22-year-old employee of Moisha's Kosher Discount Supermarket Inc. in Brooklyn was fatally crushed between a cement wall and a forklift on June 10, 2014, as employees used an electrical pallet jack to push a broken forklift up a ramp to the supermarket's roof.

Freight workers exposed to electrocution, fall, crushing hazards

Central Transport LLC faces $330,800 in fines; cited elsewhere for similar hazards

December 4, 2014

Employees at the Central Transport LLC freight shipping terminal in Billerica, Massachusetts were exposed to electrocution, falls, crushing and other injuries due to their employer's knowing and repeated disregard for basic worker safeguards, OSHA has found. The company faces $330,800 in fines for these hazards.

Illinois trucking company repeatedly violated safety standards

Hillside, Illinois, truck terminal faces $145,420 in penalties for violations

November 3, 2014

Central Transport LLC has been cited for 16 safety and health violations, including five repeat, one willful and two serious safety violations, at its trucking terminal in Hillside. An OSHA inspection found repeat and willful violations that involved defective powered industrial vehicles and lack of fall protection. Proposed penalties total $145,420.