OSHA News

Investigators are still looking into what led to a fatal blast Friday at a chemical plant in Donaldsonville, which left one dead and seven others injured.

Valley Mills Fire Department personnel view the railroad tracks near to the fertilizer plant that exploded on April 18, in West, Texas.

Authorities are investigating after a technician was killed Sunday in an accident at the Smyrna Nissan vehicle assembly plant.

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the death last week of an elevator mechanic at the $1.3-billion Levi's Stadium, being built for the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara County.

A 28-year-old Riverside man died after being crushed between a gate and cows while working at a dairy farm in Ontario, officials said.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration published two items in the June 13, 2013, Federal Register pertaining to updating its regulations to incorporate references to the ANSI Z535 series of standards, which are published by NEMA: Both rules effectively do the same thing - adding references to Z535.1-2006 , Z535.2-2011, and Z535.5-2011 to ... (more)

Not that there should be tighter oversight of the Louisiana chemical industry or anything, but there were fatal blasts at two different Louisiana chemical plants last week.

In part one of this two-part series on code-compliant electrical equipment labeling, we recognized that OSHA is moving toward more citations, greater penalties, and more frequent inspections.

The blast happened at 8:37 a.m Thursday morning in an industrial area of Geismar at a chemical plant that produces ethylene and propylene.

Federal investigators are expected in south Louisiana over the weekend at the site of an explosion that killed one worker a chemical plant in Donaldsville, La.

A contractor building the town's wind turbine has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for two alleged violations.

Sean Dowdell, a steel worker who fell 25 feet when a scaffolding collapsed under him on a job in Long Island City in February 2012, had to have a leg amputated below the knee.

A Williams Olefins plant manager said Friday company officials had "absolutely no idea" how long it will take to get the Geismar chemical plant running, while authorities investigate the cause of a massive Thursday explosion that killed two and injured more than 100.

It is tragic that Syria has used chemical weapons on its people and intervention by the US may be the right thing to do.

An explosion near a Leoni Township oil well site that left one man critically injured was "horrific" but a rare occurrence, said State Rep. Earl Poleski, R-Spring Arbor Township.

An explosion reportedly heard across Palmyra injured a contractor who had been cleaning an empty fuel tank at a borough gas station.

One worker was killed and seven others were injured Friday night in an explosion at a south Louisiana chemical plant, only miles from where a blast the previous day led to the deaths of two workers, authorities said.

Crews were pressurizing a vessel around 6:45 p.m. when they overpressed a nitrogen vessel, causing it to rupture.

The state budget approved by the Legislature on Friday includes new fees on oil refineries to fund at least 15 new inspectors in the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, also known as Cal-OSHA.

An otherwise healthy 42-year-old woman is dead - because the air conditioner covering the assembly line was broken.