Occupational injuries - Articles - Page 24

Three workers suffer amputations at Schwan's food processing facility

February 15, 2016

A leading supplier of frozen specialty foods is facing more than $172,000 in fines after two workers at its Salina facility suffered amputations in separate incidents and a third suffered lacerations and burns.

Protecting hands from arc flash

Inspect gloves & know their voltage protection

Richard Rivkin

February 3, 2016

Arc flash and electrical shock injuries continue to pose a significant threat to workplace health and safety.

Unguarded machinery injures two workers at Miss. Manufacturing plant

January 26, 2016

OSHA inspections initiated after the agency learned of two serious injuries at Mississippi Polymers, Inc. in the fall of 2015 led to 11 serious safety violations for the Corinth-based company.

Two serious injuries in one month expose hazards at Alabama co.

January 18, 2016

OSHA inspections at an Alabama manufacturing facility following two serious injuries resulted in a host of citations for safety and health violations.

The most serious workplace injuries cost U.S. companies $62 billion per year

Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index shows 10 top causes of injuries

January 15, 2016

Workplace injuries and accidents that cause employees to miss six or more days of work cost U.S. employers nearly $62 billion in 2013, the most recent year for which statistically valid injury data is available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the National Academy of Social Insurance, according to the 2016 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index.

January message from ASSE President Michael Belcher

Supporting our Latino community

Michael Belcher CSP

January 5, 2016

Latinos are the largest minority group in the U.S., and statistics show that only Mexico has a higher number of Latinos. Latinos now comprise 17% of the population, a figure expected to grow to 31% by 2060, according the U.S. Census Bureau. This increase will have significant demographic and business implications.

3 workers suffer amputation injuries at printing facility

January 2, 2016

Three workers suffered amputation injuries within four months at a Columbiana envelope printing facility because their employer failed to protect them from moving machine parts on 26 of the 27 company production lines, a federal inspection found.

A U.S. Department of Labor blog post

Why this counts: slips, trips and falls in the workplace

December 17, 2015

Every so often as I walk down the halls of the BLS headquarters building in Washington, D.C., I notice a few drips of coffee or water on our otherwise shiny floors. My first reaction is to stoop down and wipe up the spill, or to grab one of the handy “caution” signs we have around the building, to avoid a slip or fall.

Arc flash incidents often injure untrained personnel

December 2, 2015

Electrical injuries are among the construction industry's “fatal four” that caused more than half of construction deaths in 2013, according to OSHA's website.

Arc flash explosion burns six workers on Washington dam

December 1, 2015

The explosion that burned six workers at Priest Rapids Dam in central Washington on October. 8 was the result of an electrical heat wave called an “arc flash,” Grant County PUD officials have confirmed.