If your child is one of the 6.1 million children in the U.S. who are living with asthma, you already know that it’s a disease that has a serious impact on your family’s quality of life. For instance, as one of the main illness-related reasons students miss school, asthma accounts for nearly 14 million lost school days a year.
A crash that happened during yesterday’s evening rush hour in metropolitan Detroit sent two construction workers to the hospital with injuries, according to news sources.
Michigan State Police (MSP) said the three-car collision on I-75 in Taylor was caused by a driver following another vehicle too closely.
The death of a worker in a fatal fall at a Dallas apartment complex has resulted in both criminal and civil penalties against his employer.
U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade has ordered Design Plastering West LLC to pay a $150,000 criminal fine, $100,000 civil penalty, admit to eight willful violations, and to undergo monitoring by OSHA for four years.
During the 1990s, legal assaults on the tobacco industry spawned the largest and most expensive civil litigation in U.S. history. Explosive revelations from secret internal documents and tobacco whistleblowers became front page news.
Experts outline four elements of framework for productive aging
July 25, 2018
With unprecedented demographic trends leading to an aging workforce, a new emphasis on productive aging is needed to keep US workers of all generations as healthy and productive as possible, according to an article in the May Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM).
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on a Retrospective Study of the final rule entitled "Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors" in the Federal Register.
It’s silvery-white and globby and you really want to touch it, make it move around and show it to your friends. That thinking on the part of some kids is a big reason behind the many mercury spill clean-ups the EPA conducts in schools each year, at costs ranging from $100,000 to over $1 million.
The employer of two workers killed in an accident in Lockport, New York June 25 has had three accidents causing injuries at its facilities in the last two years, according to news reports.
An OSHA investigation launched after the drowning death of a dock worker has resulted in more than a quarter of a million dollars in proposed penalties against his employer.
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