The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently cited a tire facility for 12 violations and proposed $288,299 in penalties after a forklift operator was fatally struck by a falling pallet of industrial truck tires. According to OSHA’s citation and press release, the inspectors determined that the three-tier … Read more
A worker activist has sued the Department of Labor (DOL) to force the release of records surrounding the deaths of three workers at New Jersey Amazon workplaces in 2022. The lawsuit says DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which Amazon says opened investigations into all three deaths, has not responded to a freedom of … Read more
On August 30, 2024, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed new regulations to protect workers from heat illness. Comments are due by December 30, 2024. OSHA is proposing the following: Covered workplaces: Both indoor and outdoor workplaces would be covered, unless there is no reasonable expectation of exposure at or above the … Read more
