ORANGE CITY, Fla. – Had their employer inspected an aerial lift properly, it might not have malfunctioned and surged forward, crushing one worker to death and severely injuring another as they removed rain gutters at a local car dealership on Sept. 30, 2015, investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration have determined.

Employers name: Alton Industries Inc., 11 Carlton Drive, Eighty Four, Pennsylvania

Inspection site:  704 A&B Jonagold Road, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Citations issued: On March 22, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations for one willful and one serious violation. 

Employer name: The Kroger Co.

Inspection site: 3491 N. Bend Road, Cincinnati, Ohio

Citations issued: March 17, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Cincinnati area office cited The Kroger Store for one repeat, and one serious safety violation.

VALMEYER, Ill. – Federal investigators found blunt force trauma killed a 46-year-old worker when a tree inadvertently hit him during logging operations on a remote 100-acre Mississippi River levy site in Valmeyer.

One of the nation’s most dangerous occupations, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 77 recorded deaths in the forestry industry in 2014.

SAN ANTONIO – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited five Texas companies for failing to inform construction workers renovating a San Antonio building of the presence of dangerous asbestos, and allowing other hazards. In total, the companies now face $185,150 in fines.

Employer name: D&J Enterprises Inc.

Inspection site: 2701 Frederick Road, Opelika, Alabama 36801

Employer name: Vista Window Company LLC

Inspection site: 1701 Henn Parkway Southwest, Warren, Ohio

Citations issued: March 17, 2016

Employer name: Ultratec Special Effects Inc.

Inspection site: 148 Moon Drive, Owens Cross Roads, Alabama 35763

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on March 18 for four repeated, six serious and five other-than-serious safety violations.

Employers name: J. Walter Miller Co., 411 East Chestnut St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Citations issued: On March 11, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations for 11 serious and one other than serious violations.

Employers name:  Kenneth Snider Inc., Hilltop Drive, Princeton, West Virginia

Citations issued: On March 15, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations for one willful, 24 serious and two other-than-serious violations.

Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, North Texas Exploration & Production Safety

WASHINGTON – In the first year of a new reporting requirement, employers notified the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration of more than 10,000 severe work-related injuries, creating the opportunity for the agency to work with employers to eliminate hazards and protect other workers.

Employer name: South Progress LLC

Inspection site: 221 Wisteria Way, Lot 5, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida 32459

Citations issued: Citations were issued to the employer on March 07.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Poultry workers are twice as likely to suffer serious injuries and six times more likely to get sick on the job than other private sector workers, facts that are leading federal safety and health inspectors in three Midwestern states to act to reduce musculoskeletal disorders and ergonomic stressors among at-risk workers.

Employer name: CS Truck & Trailer Repair Services Inc.

Inspection site: 6575 Marshall Blvd., Lithonia, Georgia 30058 

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on March 11 for 19 serious and four other-than-serious safety and health violations.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Walmart continues to endanger the safety and health of its employees despite a 2013 corporate-wide settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to improve safety and health conditions at all of its store locations.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Walmart continues to endanger the safety and health of its employees despite a 2013 corporate-wide settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to improve safety and health conditions at all of its store locations.

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska workers in the meat processing industry are more likely to be injured on the job, than many others employed in the Husker state. The higher-than-average rate has led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to launch a new Local Emphasis Program in the meat processing industry. 

OMAHA, Neb. – Nebraska workers in the meat processing industry are more likely to be injured on the job, than many others employed in the Husker state. The higher-than-average rate has led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to launch a new Local Emphasis Program in the meat processing industry. 

COLUMBUS, Wis. – Two to three seconds, that is how quickly flowing grain can trap a worker in a grain storage bin. Sixty seconds later, hundreds of pounds of grain can submerge and smother them. When it happens, more than half the time workers die by suffocation.

Federal safety investigators found workers faced with this and other dangers at Duffy Grain’s Columbus facility when they visited the site in September 2015. They observed workers at risk of being engulfed in grain and entangled by operating augers as they cleaned storage bins.