worker injuries

Safety first: Protecting workers in the oil and gas industry as fatalities and injuries are on the rise

September 4, 2024

Workers in the oil and gas industry, whether they work with pipelines, on oil rigs, as drivers or at well sites, face higher incidence and mortality rates.

Ohio rubber manufacturer continues to ignore federal workplace safety standards, OSHA finds

Company could have prevented worker's severe injuries

ISHN Staff

December 21, 2023

The incident marks the seventh time the agency has investigated safety issues at the Bellefontaine, Ohio plant since 2013.

Tesla denies accusations of hiding injuries

In industry, the motivations are many to under-report

Dave Johnson

December 12, 2018

One month after ISHN published its October issue cover story on Tesla’s quest to have the safest factory in the world, Tesla’s safety and health practices were again in the news. On November 5, 2018, the Center for Investigative Reporting published an article, “Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers.”

Worker gets the axe after reporting injuries

Fired whistleblower gets $100K in court settlement

October 15, 2018

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Wisconsin in Green Bay has awarded a machine operator $100,000 in back wages and compensatory damages after his employer Dura-Fibre LLC – based in Menasha, Wisconsin – terminated him for reporting injuries he and a co-worker sustained.

Market intelligence: Serious injuries are pervasive

50%+ of 2014 injuries involved days away from work, transfers or restrictions

January 8, 2016

More than half of the nearly 3.0 million private industry injury and illness cases reported in 2014 involved days away from work, job transfer, or restriction (DART cases), according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Tesoro Refinery acid spill caused by loose fitting

August 18, 2014

Approximately 84,000 pounds of sulfuric acid spilled from the Tesoro Refinery earlier this year because of insufficient tightening between a tube and a compression joint at a sulfuric acid sampling station, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), which investigated the incident.