OSHA News

A Louisiana woman will serve nearly five years in prison for impersonating a federal safety trainer to profit off of displaced members of the Gulf of Mexico's fishing community, many of whom spoke little or no English.

An engineering firm says it plans to appeal a decision by federal regulators in favor of a whistleblower allegedly fired for reporting unsafe conditions at a nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas.

In " Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect ," an annual report released last week, the AFL-CIO evaluated the health and safety of American workers.

A webinar from the RV Learning Center will put dealerships in a position to look ahead at what might be coming down the road from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration .

The garment factory, located in the Rana Plaza building in Savar, collapsed last month shortly after workers arrived for their morning shifts.

The construction worker who died in Evanston Thursday morning after he was struck by a falling beam was a 57-year-old man from Dyer, IN, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

Ellison Bronze Inc. was recently recognized for achieving seven years in the Safety & Health Achievement Recognition Program.

Detective Sgt. Andy Kehm, of the Bethlehem Police Department, speaks about law enforcement response.

The Genesee County hazardous materials team and the Burton fire department investigate a suspected ammonia leak at Ice Mountain in Burton Wednesday, Jan.

The explosion at Nevada Truck & Repair, 4915 N. Sloan Lane, is under investigation by the Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Clark County Fire Department investigators.

CHICAGO The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has established a strategic partnership with the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters and W.E. O'Neil Construction Co.

Wolf Creek Generating Station is nuclear power plant near Burlington in east-central Kansas.

OSHA and BNSF Railway reached an agreement earlier this year to change procedures the safety agency said discouraged employees from reporting injuries.

A woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for bilking Gulf Coast residents by posing as a federal safety official after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into Schaumburg, Ill.-based Power Construction Co.

A man was critically injured Friday morning in Camden when a wall within the building he was working in collapsed and fell on him.

The remains of a fertilizer plant burn after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas early April 18, 2013.

A Bergen-based masonry contractor faces a hefty fine from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for work it did at a Paramus site which was deemed a fall hazard.

Texas Fire Marshals made an announcement Thursday regarding the cause of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, that killed 15 people and injured hundreds on April 17.

In this article, we'll look at how locations are classified according to flammability properties.