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Violent Assaults Against Workers Continue While OSHA continues to sloooowly make progress on its standard to protect healthcare workers against…

On June 20, 2023 postal worker Eugene Gates died from heat stroke while delivering mail on his route in Lakewood,…

Just over 18 years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Of Fish and Men” where I observed that “The penalty…

Everyone seems to have an opinion about OSHA these days — even those who barely knew the agency existed before…

OSHA Penalties are going up: OSHA’s maximum penalties are going up. Penalties for serious violations are rising from $13,653 to…

Sometimes it’s hard to remember with all the bad news around OSHA’s authority to protect workers from COVID-19, that there…

The House of Representatives this morning passed its Build Back Better bill which will significantly increase OSHA’s maximum penalties and…

Fewer than half of all employers required to send their injury and illness information into OSHA last year sent in…

Last October, Melissa Stephens went to work on third shift at Autonium in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She never came home to…

On June 29, 2017, five workers were burned to death at Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station — Michael McCort,…

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