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

                        Journey Group Inc.

                        South Dakota State University OSHA Consultation

What:              Strategic Partnership

BARBERTON, OH ‒ In less than two years, three workers at a leading tool manufacturer in Barberton suffered injuries from unguarded machinery.

The latest injury occurred on Oct. 26, 2022, when a worker suffered a left thumb amputation while hand-feeding parts into a drill press using air-activated clamps. The worker had been on the job for just three months. In December 2020 and June 2022, two other workers performing similar tasks suffered laceration injuries.

ANCHORAGE, AK – Working in the Alaskan fishing industry – an occupation already regarded as one of the nation’s most dangerous – employees aboard the F/V Pacific Producer faced dangers purely of their employer’s making, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Coast Guard has found.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration is inviting the public and workplace safety stakeholders to share their comments on how the agency can best honor companies who make exceptional commitments to workplace safety and health, and encourage others to follow.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration will withdraw its proposal to reconsider and revoke final approval of Arizona’s State Plan for occupational safety and health, and by doing so, will leave the state’s plan in place.

ATLANTA, IL ‒ An Illinois grain cooperatives’ failure to make sure they followed required safety procedures contributed to how a 27-year-old worker suffered a partial amputation of his right leg when a paddle conveyor was left running when he and two other employees entered a soybean bin for cleaning.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker today to sign a memorandum that gives the Occupational Safety and Health Administration the authority to issue certifications in support of applications for U Nonimmigrant Status and T Nonimmigrant Status visas.

SCHNECKSVILLE, PA – On a Tuesday afternoon in the summer of August 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors responded to a police report that a 17-year-old worker had suffered fatal injuries after being pulled into a woodchipper at a work site near Allentown.

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Holder-Moody-Bryson-Sovereign, a joint venture

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

                        Better Business Bureau, North Central Texas

BRAINTREE, MA – Four months after citing a Quincy roofing and construction contractor – with a long history of exposing its employees to dangerous fall hazards and who reneged on a 2017 federal settlement agreement – inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration discovered the employer again knowingly exposing workers to serious injuries or worse.

Who:               U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Montana Safety Services Council           

What:             OSHA Safety Alliance

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

What:             Alliance renewal

JACKSON, MS – Federal investigators have determined that the employer of a 25-year-old welder – who suffered fatal injuries in an explosion at a Flora work site in July 2022 – could have prevented the tragedy by following federal workplace safety standards. 

FLORENCE, AL – In a disturbing trend seen by federal workplace safety inspectors, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has again found one of the nation’s largest retail discount chains allowing blocked exit routes and boxes to be stacked unsafely.

Employer:                                         

U.S. Postal Service

1103 Godwin Ave.

Chesapeake, Virginia 23324

Citations Issued:                    One serious violation and one repeat violation

SIOUX FALLS, SD ‒ Employees working for the same local contractor at two different Sioux Falls locations avoided tragedy after facing potentially deadly electrocution and trench cave-in hazards.

LONE JACK, MO – A federal workplace safety investigation at a Lone Jack cattle processing plant – now cited seven times by inspectors for endangering workers since March 2020 – found employees exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide.  

HO-HO-KUS, NJ – Dos trabajadores de techos muertos – víctimas de caídas laborales prevenibles en Nueva York – ambos en el mes de febrero – el primero en 2019 en Kameisha Lake