June 22, 2016

Despite extensive violation history, OSHA finds Dollar General continues to expose workers to safety hazards at Shamokin, Pennsylvania, store

Employer name: DOLGENCORP LLC, doing business as Dollar General Store #398

Inspection site: 30 East Independence St., Shamokin, Pennsylvania

June 22, 2016

Inspection finds Ohio foundry continues to expose workers to hazards

FRANKLIN, Ohio – A federal workplace safety and health inspection found workers exposed to the risks of amputation, hearing loss and respiratory damage at A&B Foundry & Machining Inc. due to same hazards identified by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration at the Franklin foundry in 2012.

June 22, 2016

More than $50K in OSHA fines for Fort Worth steel fabricator

Employer name: K-T Galvanizing Company Inc.

Inspection site: 2500 Chambers Street, Venus, TX 76084

Citations issued: June 17, 2016

June 22, 2016

Labor Department announces availability of $50.5M to help states expand, diversify registered apprenticeship opportunities

WASHINGTON – States across the nation have the opportunity to expand registered apprenticeship programs that provide pathways for American workers from all backgrounds to acquire the skills and knowledge needed for good-paying jobs in fields such as information technology, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, building trades, cybersecurity and business services, through a new U.S. Department of Labor grant competition announced today.

June 22, 2016

Historic Oklahoma City restaurant pays workers $52K in back wages, damages after Labor Department investigation

Employer: Junior’s Inc., doing business as Junior’s Supper Club

Site: 2601 NW Expressway, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

June 22, 2016

OSHA issues willful, serious citations for MillerCoors Fort Worth brewery

Employer name: MillerCoors Fort Worth brewery

Inspection site: 7001 South Freeway, Fort Worth, Texas 76134

Citations issued: June 17, 2016

June 22, 2016

Towing parts manufacturer continues to expose workers to machine, electrical hazards at Mentor manufacturing facility

Employer name: Trailer Component Manufacturing Inc., operating as Buyers Product Company
Mentor, Ohio

Citations issued: June 20, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued three repeated and eight serious violations to Trailer Components Manufacturing, which operates as Buyers Product Company. 

June 21, 2016

OSHA fines grain elevator company for willfully, repeatedly exposing workers to potentially fatal grain engulfment hazards

Employer name: High Country Elevators Inc.

Worksites: 62784 US-491, Dove Creek, CO 81324

Citations issued: June 10, 2016

June 21, 2016

OSHA finds cold storage company lacked proper procedures for use of potentially dangerous ammonia

Employer name: Americold Logistics
Carthage, Missouri

Citations received: June 16, 2016

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

June 21, 2016

Union City contractor allowed dangerous hazards that led to worker’s fatal fall while removing siding at Bayonne home

Employer name: Bolivar Enterprises LLC, 902 Central Ave., Union City, New Jersey

Citations issued: On June 3, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations for nine serious violations.

June 21, 2016

Jennie-O Turkey Store to pay $492K in back wages to 339 female applicants after US Labor Department investigation found hiring discrimination

WILLMAR, Minn. – Jennie-O Turkey Store Inc. has agreed to hire 53 women and pay $491,861 in back wages to 339 female job applicants denied entry-level jobs at its Willmar turkey-processing facility. The company’s action resolves a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging the global turkey products producer discriminated in its hiring practices.

June 21, 2016

Federal contractor, subcontractor to pay Oregon, Idaho forestry workers $103K in back wages, damages after wage and hour investigation

Employers: Alpha Services, LLC
Eco Group, LLC

Sites: 1141 North 3rd St., Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
10936 SW Marilyn, Tualatin, Oregon

June 21, 2016

Employees exposed to widespread, potentially fatal electrical, fall hazards at Williamsburg building site

Employer name: Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov, 638 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, New York, constructing a six-story school and office building at 642 Bedford St. in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

Citations issued: On June 3, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov for 21 serious violations of workplace safety standards.

June 21, 2016

OSHA finds absence of proper safety guards led two workers to suffer amputation injuries at Piedmont food manufacturer

PIEDMONT, Mo. ‒ Twice in less than a month, two workers at an Ajinomoto Windsor Inc. facility suffered amputation injuries because their employer failed to install adequate safety guards to keep operator’s hands out of machine danger zones, inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found. The agency cited the food manufacturer for similar machine hazards at the Piedmont facility in 2013.

June 21, 2016

Non-GMO food additive manufacturer faces $180K in fines after explosion, fire injures 4 workers at Ohio facility

NEWARK, Ohio – A Newark food additive manufacturer’s failure to handle hazardous materials and respond properly to an emergency led to an explosion that injured four workers, including two contractors who scaled an 8-foot security fence topped with triple-strand barbed wire to escape the fireball.

June 20, 2016

OSHA cites Wegmans Food Market’s Rochester bakery for repeat safety violations after operating conveyor injures employee’s arm

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A simple task for an employee at Wegmans Food Market Inc.’s commercial bakery in Rochester instead resulted in a needless and severe injury. As the worker cleaned an operating conveyor belt and roller on Dec. 16, 2015, her hand was caught between the belt and the roller and the machine pulled it in. She sustained broken bones in her hand and arm.

June 20, 2016

Chautauqua County manufacturer fails to correct fall hazard, allows recurring electrical hazard; faces OSHA fines of $87K

Employer name: Jamestown MVP LLC, 2061 Allen Street, Falconer, New York 14733.

Doing business as MVP Plastics, the company manufactures disposable plates and bowls.

Citations issued: On June 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued one citation for failure to abate a previously cited violation, and one citation for a repeat violation.

June 20, 2016

US Labor Department reaches out to peach farmers before investigations

Who: U.S. Labor Department, Wage and Hour Division

What: “Cultivating Compliance:” outreach events on understanding compliance with federal law for growers, workers, coordinators and others participating in the area’s upcoming peach festival.

When: June 23, 2016

Where: Wagoner County Fairgrounds
Exhibit Hall
30058 E 14th St. South
Coweta, OK 74429
12:30-3:30 p.m. CDT

Stratford Middle School
200 E. Bayless St.
Stratford, OK 74872
9 a.m.-Noon CDT

June 20, 2016

Follow-up OSHA inspection finds workplace safety problems persist at Georgia pipe fabricator; nearly $76K in fines proposed

Employer name: U.S. Pipe Fabrication LLC

Inspection site: 1101 Industrial Blvd., Gainesville, Georgia 30504

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to U.S. Pipe on June 6 for three repeated, three serious and one other-than-serious safety and health violations.

June 16, 2016

Property management company to pay $200k in back wages, damages following US Labor Department investigation

ST. LOUIS – Significant minimum wage and overtime violations found at three hotels owned by SASAK Corporation, led the company to sign a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The agreement requires the St. Louis-area property manager, developer and investor to pay $200,000 in back wages and damages to 51 housekeepers, front desk clerks and laundry service employees.