BIGLERVILLE, Pa. – For more than two months, a worker at a Pennsylvania pallet company repeatedly told her employer about health concerns related to mold exposure at a Biglerville plant. Despite confirming that the mold existed, IFCO Services N.A. Inc. did not remove the fungus and instead fired the woman less than three weeks after she complained again about her health concerns.

ALTAMONT, Ill. – Federal safety and health investigators found Altamont Ambulance Service Inc. failed to follow specific guidelines to protect emergency healthcare workers from exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other hazards while providing patient care.

Employer name: Amerway Inc., an industrial soldering and metal brazing manufacturer

Inspection site: 3701 Beale Ave., Altoona, Pennsylvania

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The death of a Tonawanda Coke Corp. employee who was pulled into the rotating shaft of a coal elevator on Jan. 6, 2016, could have been prevented, an inspection by the Buffalo Area Office of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has determined.

Date of action: May 20, 2016

Type of action: Decision and Order

Names of defendants: Flintlock Construction Services LLC

Employer name: Challenge Manufacturing
Kansas City, Missouri

Citations issued: June 23, 2016

Employer’s name: L&M Bag and Supply Company Inc., doing business as L&M Supply Company Inc.

Worksite location: 126 Texas Avenue, San Marcos, Texas 78666

Citations issued: July 5, 2016

YORK, Pa. – The sexual assault of a home health care worker has resulted in a willful citation against one of the nation’s leading providers of pediatric home health and therapy services for medically frail and chronically ill children, after it failed to protect its employees properly from the dangers of workplace violence. 

Employer name: Lakemoor Dental P.C., Lakemoor, Illinois
Lakemoor Dental of Hainesville, Hainesville, Illinois

Citations issued: June 27, 2016

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Chippewa Valley Technical College

Employer name: Johns Manville

Inspection site: 200 West Industrial Blvd., Cleburne, Texas 76033

Citations issued: June 29, 2016

Employer name: Wei-Chuan U.S.A. Inc.

Inspection site: 80 Amity St., Jersey City, New Jersey  

Employer Name: S.J. Louis Construction of Texas LTD

Inspection Site: 2525 North Loop West, Suite 220, Houston, Texas 77433

Citations issued: June 30, 2016

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. – Federal investigators have determined a Michigan janitor was labeled a troublemaker and subjected to a continuing litany of adverse personnel actions by the Dearborn Heights School District after she complained about exposure to asbestos while cleaning school floor tiles.

HEBRON, Ohio – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued 57 citations for safety violations to Sunfield Inc., an Ohio auto parts’ manufacturer. The agency has also proposed the company pay more than $3.42 million in total fines for its failure to disconnect machinery from a power supply and prevent sudden movement before maintenance and service, and to train workers in how to operate machine presses safely and to service and maintain them.

Employer name: Alliance Industries Inc.
Waupaca, Wisconsin

Citations issued: June 27, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

DENVER – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered the former owner of Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours to pay a former employee back wages, interest and punitive damages after the agency found he terminated an employee who refused to drive an unsafe tour bus.

Employer(s) Name(s): Terrill Manufacturing Company Inc.
A.L. Staffing Inc.

Inspection Site: 2816 Martin Luther King Dr., San Angelo, Texas 76903

Citations issued: June 24, 2016

Employer name: MMC Construction LLC

Inspection site: 1470 Taylor Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36117

Citations issued: Citations were issued to the employer on June 24.

PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is deploying assets to flood-impacted West Virginia counties to ensure employers, workers and others engaged in cleanup efforts avoid potential hazards and take steps to protect themselves.