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15 hrs ago | St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, MO

Man dies in accident at Lifeline Foods

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.

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23 hrs ago | Physics Blog

Prevention experts urge modification to 2009 H1N1 guidance for health care workers

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.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Chemical and Engineering News

OSHA Hits BP With Record Fine

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.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Explosion, Galveston Metro, Texas City, TX

WTIC-TV Hartford

Police Identify Construction Worker Killed in Farmington

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

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Related Topix: Hartford Metro, Hartford, CT

Littleton Courier

10 homes damaged in blast at nearby Utah refinery

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

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Woods Cross, UT, Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Marco Eagle

VIDEO: Four men injured, two seriously, in flash fire at Bonita Springs Utilities plant

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.

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Related Topix: Bonita Springs, FL, Explosion

Cape Cod Times

Seafood plant fined following ice machine death

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.

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law

KLFY-TV Lafayette

OSHA investigates fatal fall of worker

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.

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Glasgow Daily Times, Glasgow, KY

Four injured in crash

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.

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Related Topix: Glasgow, KY, Barren County, KY, Lucas, KY, Metcalfe County, KY

Wed Nov 04, 2009

KSL TV

Refinery has history of problems

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

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Related Topix: Explosion, Environmental Law, Law

WHDH

OSHA fines Mass. firm over ice machine death

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.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Osha.gov

US Labor Department's OSHA struck by accident 'safety stand down' to be held at construction sites throughout Georgia on Nov. 4

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.

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Related Topix: Georgia, Georgia Government, Georgia Tech

EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

OSHA seeks $42K fine against New Balance for violations in Lawrence

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

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Employment / Labor Law

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

National Hearing Conservation Association Petitions OSHA to Lower...

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.

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Related Topix: Audiology, Medicine

Chemical and Engineering News

OSHA Begins Process To Regulate Dust

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.

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Related Topix: Explosion, Food

Sun Nov 01, 2009

KHOU-TV Houston

Texas City mayor blasts OSHA's BP fine

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 ...

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Related Topix: Galveston Metro, Texas City, TX

Osha.gov

US Labor Department's OSHA fines West Carrollton, Ohio, business $45,000 in 1st of 2 investigations into May 3 explosion at chemical plant

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.

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Related Topix: West Carrollton, OH, Explosion

Pittsburgh Tribune

OSHA investigating worker's death on job at Plum site

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

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Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Tribune/Sunday Ledger Tribune

Death of worker results in fine from state

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.

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Related Topix: Steel, Mining, Steel Dynamics, Jeffersonville, IN, Law, Employment / Labor Law

PaintSquare

Defendants in Painters' Deaths Get Extension

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.

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Related Topix: Prison, Xcel Energy, Energy, Minnesota

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