OSHA News

Cintas Corp. and the widow of a former employee who is suing the company will have another chance to settle her 2007 wrongful death lawsuit against the nation's largest uniform supplier.

The Toronto Star November 20, 2009 Friday GTA; Pg. GT01 570 words Hotel room cleaners suffering on the job; Study finds high rate of injury among staff of mostly immigrants Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star Filomena Canedo has been a hotel housekeeper in Toronto for 17 years, changing sheets, lifting heavy mattresses, vacuuming carpets, pushing carts of ...

WASHINGTON a ' The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has received the Government Accountability Office's report on the under-reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses and OSHA's audit process.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration area office in Bismarck, N.D., says it will investigate a death at a construction site in southeastern South Dakota.

A Rosemount fertilizer plant remained shut down Wednesday while investigators probed an industrial accident that killed an Oklahoma truck driver and critically injured another as they loaded anhydrous ammonia on Monday.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers are being told by the government to take greater precautions with their Black Friday shopping events to avoid a repeat of last year, when a worker was trampled by customers.

A group at Robins Air Force Base gets some positive attention from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

An oil rig accident involving a crane has killed two Vici men who worked for an Oklahoma City-based company.

Molex Incorporated announces its safety program training series, "Working Together for a Safer Workplace", that aims at educating electrical and safety engineers, electricians and maintenance personal and electrical contractors to common electrical safety hazards, as well as providing a safety audit of the worksite and safety information from the ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited P. Gioioso & Sons Inc.

Posting loss : The Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the 2009 fiscal year, about $1 billion more than the previous year.

Congressional investigators say the agency in charge of workplace safety needs to do a better job of making sure employers keep accurate records on worker injuries and illnesses.

NEWARK -- Few people would want to scrub dried blood off mattresses and walls after a homicide, but it's just another day at the office for Ron Lillibridge.

One worker was killed and another worker was injured Tuesday afternoon in a crane accident at the construction site of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City police said.

The Silver Eagle Refinery is temporarily shutting down because of findings by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board after the Nov.

Every day, 16 workers go to work and don't come home. They are killed on the job.

AK Steel Corp. has received two serious citations and was fined more than $7,000 by OSHA in connection with an incident where a worker was severely burned when he fell into a pit of hot water at Middletown Works.

Citing "willful, repeat and serious violations" of workplace safety and health regulations, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines totaling $509,000 against the Scotia Bag Plant of Cranesville Aggregate Co.

A longtime employee of the Guardian Fiberglass insulation plant near Inwood died Thursday morning after an industrial accident.

Police say a 35-year-old Lee's Summit man is dead and a 30-year-old man from Grain Valley was critically injured after they fell about 100 feet at a downtown construction site.