Who:             U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

                       The Safety Council of Greater St. Louis                  

What:             Workplace safety and health alliance

HARTSHORNE, OK – When federal workplace safety investigators opened inspections in December 2022 at two Dollar General stores in southeast Oklahoma, they found blocked exit routes and walkways exposing employees to fire hazards, the same types of violations investigators discovered in stores across the nation operated by the national discount retailer.

COLUMBUS, OH ‒ A Columbus children’s hospital failed to protect employees — including nurses and mental health professionals — from patients whose bites, kicks, punches and other assaults caused serious injuries, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.

Participants:  U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety

                              and Health Administration- Lubbock Area Office          

                              Damage Prevention Council of Texas

                             City of Lubbock Texas- Engineering Department              

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of more than $12.7 million in funding to make more good jobs available to the U.S. workforce by supporting training initiatives designed to promote safety and health in the nation’s workplaces.

WASHINGTON – Unsafe conditions typically found by federal workplace safety inspectors at discount stores operated by Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC nationwide were on display again during U.S. Department of Labor inspections at nine locations in Maine, North Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin in late 2022.

Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration         

What: Fiscal Year 2023 Susan Harwood grant funding opportunity outreach

When: May 24, 2023, 2-3 p.m. EDT  

KENTON, OH ‒ In certain concentrations, flammable vapors can ignite, leading to powerful explosions and leaving workers seriously injured or worse. For workers manufacturing plastic resin, the high heat used in the production process increases the risks.

AURORA, CO – In late December 2022, an unprotected trench at an Aurora residential worksite collapsed and fatally injured a 23-year-old employee, a tragedy that a Brighton sewer and water contractor could have prevented by using required protections against a leading cause of industry deaths.

PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Shipbuilders Council of America and its associate members have renewed an alliance to continue protecting the Mid-Atlantic region’s shipbuilding workers from workplace safety and health hazards. 

BURLINGTON, NJ – An employee’s first day of work at a southern New Jersey manufacturing facility ended tragically when he suffered the amputation of three fingers while operating a press brake without required safety guards, similar to violations cited by federal safety investigators at the facility in 2010 and 2015.

DENVER – When federal workplace safety inspectors opened an investigation in March 2023 of an excavation worksite in Fort Collins, they determined GoldStar Excavation and Sewer was still ignoring the same federal safety standards that could have prevented a trench collapse in Greeley in the summer of 2022 that led to the death of a teenaged company employee.

CONLEY, GA – A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found that two companies operating at a Conley wood treatment chemical manufacturing facility exposed workers to chemical hazards.

PLAINS TOWNSHIP, PA – A federal district court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania has issued a consent judgment ordering a Luzerne County paper box manufacturer and its owner to pay a former employee $13,000 after the U.S.

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

                        Holder Construction

                        Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation

What:             Strategic partnership agreement

WHO:            U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

                      SNF Polychemie Inc., Dolton, Illinois                           

WHAT:          OSHA Voluntary Protection Program site-based, star-level designation

Employer name:        Texas Children’s Hospital

                                            1919 South Braeswood Blvd.

                                            Houston, TX 77030

Citations issued:        One serious citation and one Hazard Alert Letter.

TACOMA, WA – A federal court in Tacoma has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service retaliated against an employee who reported an injury to supervisors and applied for workers’ compensation benefits in 2019 while on probation as a new postal employee.

Participants:      U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational

                Safety and Health Administration

                Holder Construction Group LLC

Participants:        U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

                                    IEW Construction Group