Category Archives: Recordkeeping

Lied about nuclear plant injury rates to get safety bonuses A Louisiana man convicted of lying about worker injuries at Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear facilities, allowing his company to collect $2.5 million in safety bonuses, has been sentenced to serve … Continue reading

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Representative Gene Green (D-TX) recently introduced H.R.170.IH to direct the Secretary of Labor to revise regulations concerning the recording and reporting of occupational injuries and illnesses under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.  The revisions would require site-controlling … Continue reading

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Your Form 300A Must be Posted as of February 1st On February 1st of each year, the majority of employers with 10 or more employees must post the OSHA-required Form 300A, which summarizes an employer’s OSHA recordable injuries and illnesses … Continue reading

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This is a follow-up to an article we posted in March “Recordkeeping Violations Lead to $288K in Fines” US Labor Department recovers back wages for student workers, fines companies for labor violations at warehouse in Palmyra, Pa. Companies involved agree … Continue reading

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Injuries Hidden to Obtain Over $2.5 Million in Safety Bonuses. Safety Manager could get up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000,000 for each offense. Following a 12-day trial in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga, … Continue reading

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More than $200,000 in proposed fines B.W. Grinding Co., dba B.W. Supply, has been cited by OSHA for 25 safety and health violations – including three willful – at the company’s Lyons, Ohio iron foundry. The May 7 inspection was … Continue reading

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Scenario:  Two of your supervisors completed their work for the day and entered the change trailer to change clothes and proceed home.  There was some bantering back and forth between the two concerning how to beat the traffic at shift’s … Continue reading

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Workers exposed to biological hazards OSHA has cited Columbus-headquartered Atrium Centers LLC, which operates the Woodside Village Care Center in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, with four health violations for exposing workers to biological hazards at the nursing care facility. OSHA conducted … Continue reading

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OSHA cites Sodexho $81 grand for serious safety and health violations at Alderson-Broaddus College The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Sodexho Inc. with safety and health violations – 12 of them serious – found … Continue reading

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Federal Court Sides with Employer In a case of particular interest to safety practitioners nationwide, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sharply curtailed the time frame for which companies can be cited for Occupational Safety … Continue reading

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