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Sixty percent of workers report being planted in their chairs for more than six hours a day

Lack of training, supervision may have played a role in immigrant worker being crushed by slabs of granite

With 82 percent of Americans buckling up, Transportation Secretary Mineta says 15,700 fatalities, 350,000 serious injuries are avoided each year

Agency will work with three key organizations to prevent amputations and exposure to ergo-related hazards

Pennsylvania firm cited for "egregiously willful" safety violations at work site

Workers engaged in disaster response will receive critical health and safety training

Walls of a 33-foot deep trench collapsed at Texas construction company's work site

Fine is the amount OSHA can levy against plumbing company for lapses in workplace safety, area director says

No major surprises in '05; scaffolding and hazcom top the list of most-cited standards

$21 million "won’t act as a deterrent" for BP, which had set aside $700 million to pay settlement costs for refinery blast