Employer name: Country Vision Cooperative 709 Mill Street Reedsville, Wisconsin

Investigation site: W2468 County Road E Chilton, Wisconsin

Citations issued: Sept. 14, 2015

Employer name: Stampcoat Inc. doing business as El Paso Tool & Die in El Paso, Texas

Citations issued: Sept. 14, 2015

Employer name: Plainville Plating Co. Inc., an electroplating facility located at 21 Forrestville Ave. in Plainville, Connecticut.

Citations issued: On Sept. 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued two repeat and 11 serious citations to this employer. The repeat citations stem from hazards similar to those identified during a 2010 inspection of the workplace.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Since Jan. 2015, 46 Arkansas workers have lost fingers, toes, hands and legs due to amputations at work. Amputations are debilitating workplace injuries that often happen when workers must operate mechanical machinery without the proper guards or training.

Employer name: Reser's Fine Foods, Topeka, Kansas

Citations issued: Sept. 2, 2015

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Wegmans Food Markets Inc. bills itself as an industry leader and innovator. However, recurring hazards at its 1500 Brooks Ave. bakery in Rochester — and injuries to two workers — suggest a need for the supermarket chain to address workplace safety for its employees.

In March 2015, a sanitation crew member lost his fingertip when it caught in the pinch point of an operating conveyor that he was cleaning. A month later, a mechanic sustained a first degree burn on his wrist when steam released while he attempted to repair a valve.

Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's El Paso Area Office and T&T Staff Management, a professional employer organization with 5,497 employees in El Paso

CORDOVA, Ill. — A 45-year-old lost part of three fingers when his left hand caught in a table saw at a Cordova company that fabricates reusable shipping containers. Doctors reattached the fingers, but had to amputate the tip of his left middle finger. The employee has been unable to return to work.

Agency cites Mason Well Service in Odessa, Texas, for 6 workplace violations

LUBBOCK, Texas — An Upton County oil rig inferno killed family members Arturo Martinez Sr., Arturo Martinez Jr. and Rogelio Salgado in March 2015 as they worked to install a blowout preventer, which seals, controls and monitors a rig.

Employers' names: Hensel Phelps Construction Co. and CVI Development LLC

Citations issued: Sept. 3, 2015

DENVER — When an employee of a Utah based company discovered possible evidence of securities fraud, he spoke up about his internal investigations and concerns the company was making false representations to potential clients. The company responded by discharging him.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the employee's wrongful termination complaint filed in May 2013 and found that reporting the results of the securities fraud investigation and voicing concerns were factors in his dismissal.

Worker's complaint prompts OSHA investigation

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. — In a three-month period this year, health care workers at Bergen Regional Medical Center LP in Paramus were victims of violent patients in eight incidents, including one in which a nurse suffered a laceration and bruises attempting to stop an attack on a patient.

Employer name: Allen Harim Foods LLC, a poultry processing plant located in Harbeson, Del.

Hazard Alert Letter issued: A hazard alert letter was issued on Aug. 7, 2015

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has awarded $10.5 million in one-year federal safety and health training grants to 80 nonprofit organizations across the nation for education and training programs to help high-risk workers and their employers recognize serious workplace hazards, implement injury prevention measures and understand their rights and responsibilities.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has awarded $10.5 million in one-year federal safety and health training grants to 80 nonprofit organizations across the nation for education and training programs to help high-risk workers and their employers recognize serious workplace hazards, implement injury prevention measures and understand their rights and responsibilities.

OSHA says pinsetter at Galaxy Bowling Center lacked safety mechanisms

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A 29-year-old man working at a Brownsville bowling alley died when his shirt collar tangled in a faulty pinsetter, strangling him as the machine twisted the collar tighter.

OSHA proposes nearly $80K in fines

Employer name: Tallahatchie Lumber and Mat Co. Inc.

Inspection findings: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the employer one willful, 22 serious and four other-than-serious safety citations. The agency initiated the investigation as part of its National Emphasis Program on Amputations.

MP Global Products faces $244K in penalties, placed in severe violator program

BROWNSVILLE, Texas A 29-year-old man working at a Brownsville bowling alley died when his shirt collar tangled in a faulty pinsetter, strangling him as the machine twisted the collar tighter.

Hired part-time as a mechanic, Vidal Garcia had worked at Galaxy Bowling Center for four months before the accident on March 5, 2015. He was doing maintenance on an automatic bowling pinsetter, machine that picks up and clears fallen pins and sets them for the next bowler.

OSHA investigators find 11 safety violations at Waukesha Iron & Metal

WAUKESHA, Wis. — A 52-year-old maintenance manager died of head and neck injuries after being struck by a forklift at metal recycling facility in Waukesha. Working without head protection, the man was hoisting an oxygen cylinder onto the forklift when the accident occurred.