Employer name: La Espiga de Oro Inc.

Location: 1202 W 15th St., Houston, Texas 77008

Citations issued: Aug. 1, 2016

Employer name: Swifty Athens LLC, doing business as Swifty Car Wash LLC

Inspection site: 2434 W. Broad St., Athens, Georgia 30606

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to Swifty Car Wash on July 30 for 10 serious and one other-than-serious safety violations.

Employer name: Anthony Smith, doing business as Center Stage

Inspection site: 3901 Michael Blvd., Mobile, Alabama 36609           

Citations issued: Citations were issued to the employer on July 29.

Employer name: The Spoon Group, doing business as “Prop N Spoon”

Inspection site: 970 New Brunswick Ave., Bldg. 1, Rahway, New Jersey 

Employer name: Switchback Timber Inc., P.O. Box 977, Bradley, West Virginia 

Inspection site: Dorothy Tract, RR 3, Dorothy, West Virginia            

ADDISON, Ill. ‒ Four months after federal safety investigators cited his employer for failing to provide workers with fall protection at a United Parcel Service facility in Addison, a 42-year-old employee of Material Handling Systems/MHS Technical Services, fell 22 feet to his death at the same site.

LOS ANGELES – In a victory for employee whistleblowers, the U.S. Department of Labor has secured a decision from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in a case against a trustee and attorney for the Cement Masons Southern California Trust Funds.

ROCKMART, Ga. – In the agricultural industry, excessive dust is a fuel that can cause serious and sometimes deadly explosions and fires – as was the case at a Georgia chicken feed mill where an explosion killed a 25-year-old man and injured five others in February 2016, federal workplace safety inspectors have found.

Employer name: KWS Manufacturing Company Ltd.

Inspection site: 3041 Conveyor Drive, Burleson, Texas 76028

Citations issued: July 28, 2016

ARLINGTON, Va. – Exactly two years after its landmark rule aimed at preventing black lung disease took effect, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today begins implementing provisions of the third – and final – phase of the rule.

ARLINGTON, Va. – The largest parking operator in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area has entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to resolve allegations of race-based hiring and pay discrimination.

SUPERIOR, Wis. –  Federal health inspectors found Fraser Shipyards Inc. overexposed workers to lead during the retrofitting of a ship’s engine room. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s sampling results determined 14 workers had lead levels up to 20 times the exposure limit. The agency also found workers exposed to other heavy metals.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Federal workplace safety and health inspectors cited an Uncasville manufacturer that makes tachometers and speed-measuring devices for 11 serious violations, including obvious amputation, crushing, and electrical hazards.

Employer name: Bluebonnet Foods, L.P. doing business as GoodHeart Specialty Foods Co.

Location: 11122 Nacogdoches Road, San Antonio, Texas 78217

Date citations issued: July 28, 2016

Date of Action: July 26, 2016

Name(s) of Defendants: Donald Kann, Kann & Associates, Inc. doing business as Kann Partners, and Kann & Associates Inc., Kann Partners 401(k) plan.

Allegations: An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration led the secretary of labor to file a complaint which alleges the defendants:

PALATINE, Ill. – Federal safety inspectors found a suburban Chicago electroplating company continues to put its employees in danger of serious injuries by failing to install adequate machine safety guards, train workers in machine safety procedures and correct electrical deficiencies in the plant – all violations for which inspectors cited the Arlington Plating Company in 2013.

Employer name: Oscar Renda Contracting Inc.

Inspection site: Subdivision on Shepherd Street, Houston, Texas

Citations issued: July 28, 2016

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

NEW YORK – Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited two Queens construction companies a total of $117,170 for exposing workers to fall, fire and electrical hazards while rehabilitating three adjoining buildings at 223 Grand St. in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

Date of Action: July 26, 2016

Type of Action: Consent judgment and order

Defendant: Horizon NR LLC, Lance Sogan, Horizon NR Employee Savings Plan and Trust