Articles Tagged with ''occupational fatality''

OSHA says one of the region's largest commercial laundry companies continues to expose its employees to the same workplace hazards that contributed to the 2011 death of a 24-year-old worker at a Prestige Industries LLC facility in Bay Shore, New York.

A Tucson, Arizona scrap yard worker was killed yesterday by an explosion after he cut into what turned out to be a military bomb.

The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld citations issued by OSHA to Film Allman LLC after an investigation into the death of a 27-year-old camera assistant and injuries to eight other workers.

A 32-year-old shop manager at a Council Bluffs, Iowa truck repair and service center died in an accident last week.

An Odessa, Texas company has been cited for six workplace violations in the deaths of three workers in March, 2015.

A 29-year-old man working at a Brownsville, Texas bowling alley died when his shirt collar tangled in a defective pinsetter, strangling him as the machine twisted the collar tighter.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 225 citations and six orders during special impact inspections at 15 coal mines and six metal and nonmetal mines in July.

On August 13, 2015, another worker was suffocated by palm fronds in California (see news report ). This is at least the fourth similar fatality since the California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program (CA/FACE) program issued a report and video on this hazard in February 2014.

In the biggest-ever settlement in California over workplace safety violations involving a single victim, Bumble Bee Foods will pay $6 million in the death of an employee who was accidentally cooked in a 270 degree industrial oven.