One of OSHA’s grantees, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and its Research Center, will be offering a free seminar on scaffold and ladder safety. NAHB is a recipient of OSHA’s Susan Harwood Training Grant Program, and will conduct this seminar under provisions of the said grant. The two and a half hour safety [...]

Part 3 of 3 We are counting down the Ten Most Dangerous Jobs in the country based on recent data gathered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These 10 jobs have the highest risk of fatality in the country as demonstrated by the number of fatalities per 100,000 employees. People always say that you can [...]

A heat-related death in a Texas construction worksite is currently being investigated by OSHA. Jeffery Louis Willenborg of Grand Prairie, Austin died on July 15 from a reported worksite illness caused by heat. Willenborg has been said to be working at a construction site for three consecutive days and under conditions exposing him to very [...]

A crane operator became another casualty to a workplace accident when the crane he was operating fell over last June 15 in Home Port Marina, Tarpon Springs. Ivan Hubbert, 71, died after falling off his crane and suffering severe head injuries. As of press time, OSHA is still looking into the incident. In another issue [...]

OSHA recently called the attention of a firearms manufacturing company because of its alleged violations on health and safety standards.  The Newport plant of Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc was inspected between November 2008 and May 2009 and was discovered to have violated standards on PPE and machine guards, fire and explosives as well as [...]

Another worksite accident occurred last June 10, 2009, this time, three construction workers fell to their deaths from a scaffolding that collapsed in West Campus. The incident happened in the construction site of a luxury, high-rise residential condominium neighboring the University of Texas. The reasons for the collapse of the supposed-to-be secure scaffold as well [...]

The June 18 meeting of the Cal/OSH Standards Board in Oakland will include an emergency proposal on heat illness prevention that seeks to bring “more specificity and enforceability” to General Industry Safety Orders §3395. The proposed amendments will, according to the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR): Clarify the provisions on when and how to provide [...]

A chemical leak has just occurred last week in a cold storage warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky leaving two workers dead and leading authorities to monitor the incident.  Prior to this, the warehouse had an ammonia leak in 2007 where three workers were injured. The leak that happened last Wednesday in Louisville’s American Cold Storage that [...]

The accumulation of combustible dust has been a known workplace hazard in industries, but little has been done by the authorities to address the issue. Combustible dusts in the workplace come from the materials used in the production or manufacturing processes. These dusts come in the form of fine particles and metals, wood, grains, foams, [...]

Initial investigations on the recent collapse of the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility in the city of Irving, Texas exposed some issues on legality related to planning, building and maintaining the facility.  Reports revealed the lack of the building’s blueprints and other specifications as well as the lack of an engineer’s seal on the planning documents.  [...]