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Home << Local << Man dies in accident at Lifeline Foods A contract employee died in an apparent industrial accident Thursday at Lifeline Foods, the chief executive officer of the food-processing company confirmed.

Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment by healthcare workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza.

The massive explosion in 2005 at BP's Texas City, Texas, refinery was caused by inadequacies in the pressure-relief system, which OSHA charges still exist.

The construction worker killed Wednesday in Farmington has been identified as Freddy Vasquez, 22, of Putnam Heights in Hartford.

Federal investigators expressed alarm over the extent of damages caused by a refinery that has had a history of trouble dating to 2003.

Four men suffered burns and chemical injuries when a flash fire sparked during the trial of a new wastewater measuring tool at a Bonita Springs Utilities plant on Thursday evening.

A New Bedford seafood plant, where a worker was crushed to death by an ice machine last spring, is facing nearly $67,000 in proposed fines after federal safety inspectors cited the company for 23 alleged violations of workplace safety standards.

St. James Parish sheriff's deputies say a worker wearing a safety harness died this week of injuries received in a 40-foot fall from scaffolding inside a storage tank under construction.

Four Glasgow residents were slightly injured Tuesday when a tractor-trailer collided with their vehicle and sent them into the median of the Louie B. Nunn Parkway in Glasgow.

Wednesday's explosion isn't the first problem at the Silver Eagle Refinery. Federal investigators eyes were already focused on the refinery.

A New Bedford seafood processing plant faces $66,800 in fines following a probe into the death of a worker who became caught in an industrial ice-making machine.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has partnered with several construction organizations to support a struck by accident "safety stand down" on Wednesday, Nov.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc.

Citing the fact that nearly 22 million American workers are exposed to hazardous noise on a daily basis and that occupational hearing loss continues to plague industry, the National Hearing Conservation Association has made a request to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to reduce the permissible exposure limit for noise exposures.

With encouragement from labor unions and members of Congress, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration last week took the first step to formally regulate combustible dust by publishing an "advanced notice of proposed rulemaking." The need for a comprehensive national regulation for combustible and explosive dust has been growing for years.

Texas City's mayor, Matt Doyle, lashed out at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for its $87 million fine against BP's Texas City refinery, calling the federal government's actions "one of the biggest affronts to the working men and women of this country." On Friday, OSHA proposed the fine - the largest ever for the agency - for a ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $45,000 in fines against Veolia ES Technical Solutions in West Carrollton, alleging 11 serious violations of federal workplace health and safety standards.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating a fatal construction accident in Plum.

The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Steel Dynamics Inc., of Jeffersonville, $240,000 for safety violations stemming from an August incident that left one worker dead.

Defendants facing criminal charges in the deaths of five painters at a hydroelectric plant were granted a motion on October 23, 2009, for more time to prepare for trial, according to Jeffrey Dorschner, press officer for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Colorado.