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CSB: Lack of accountability, oversight led to Texas Tech lab explosion

Grad student lost three fingers

October 20, 2011

A investigaton by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has found that systemic deficiencies led to a chemistry laboratory explosion at Texas Tech University in January of 2010 that seriously injured a graduate student.

Despite broken bones and head trauma, no 9-1-1 call after worker injured in fall

While grocery shopping, OSHA inspector sees same fall hazards at another location

October 19, 2011

When an employee of a Market Basket store in Rindge, MA fell 11 feet to a concrete floor and sustained broken bones and head trauma, store management didn't call 9-1-1.

Former Ohio, Wis. nuke workers may be eligible for benefits

Program covers illness caused by radiation, beryllium, silica exposure

October 18, 2011

Former workers of nuclear weapons facilities in Wisconsin and Ohio may be eligible for compensation and medical benefits under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act administered by the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation.

OSHA releases new info on laboratory hazards

October 17, 2011

OSHA has released new educational materials on laboratory safety aimed at helping laboratory managers protected their workers from exposure to chemical, biological and physical hazards.

OSHA reaches half million dollar grain bin safety settlement with farm co-op

October 17, 2011

A farmer-owned Wisconsin cooperative has agreed to pay $550,000 in penalties, step up grain bin training for employees and abate all safety issues at its four grain handling facilities, according to OSHA.

The ‘San Antonio Seven’ still sidelined by illness years after chemical and mold exposures

Greg Harman

October 14, 2011

Chronic pain. Chronic fatigue. Regular ER visits. Memory loss and confusion. Seizures. In the mid-1990s the rash of symptoms were the calling card for a group of Southwest Airlines employees working at the airline’s San Antonio reservations center.

CSB to hold webinar on lab accident findings

October 14, 2011

Anyone interested in learning the details of a college laboratory accident involving a high-energy metal compound can sign up for a free webinar being conducted by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) on Wednesday, Oct. 19.

MSHA audits uncover injury, illness underreporting at Kentucky mine

4th operation to be placed on potential pattern of violations status

October 14, 2011

The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has placed Dennis Creg Yonts' Mine No. 2 in Letcher County, Ky., operated by Vision Coal, on potential pattern of violations status based on data gathered during agency audits.

Employees of Tucson company may not have ben trained in hazardous waste handling

EPA fines total $30,000

October 13, 2011

MRI Manufacturing and Research, Inc. failed to provide proof that employees were trained in the safe handling and storing of hazardous waste, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has fined the company $30,000 for that and other violations.