Employer name and location: EP Heller Co., which manufactures and services carbide steel cutting tools, is located at 21-25 Samson Ave. in Madison, New Jersey.

Date investigation initiated: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated an investigation on Oct. 8, 2014, in response to a complaint.

OSHA proposes $43,560 in fines for William Trahant Jr. Construction, Inc. of Lynn

Employer name: William Trahant, Jr. Construction, Inc., roofing contractor, Lynn, Mass.

Inspection site: 86 Congress St., Salem, Mass. 01970

Date inspection initiated: OSHA's Andover Area Office began an inspection on Oct. 27, 2014, in response to a complaint.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration launched two new online tools today to assist operators, miners, MSHA and others in tracking violations of standards commonly associated with mining deaths and frequently found by federal mine inspectors in examinations of underground coal mines. The latest tools enhance other web-based methods MSHA offers the mining industry to operate more safely.

WASHINGTON — The Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, also known as the ERISA Advisory Council, will hold its first meeting of 2015 on March 20 in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Room S-2508, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Open to the public, the meeting will begin with the introduction of the new council chair and vice chair. An update on the activities of the U.S.

Date of Action: Feb.  23, 2015

Type of Action: Filing of a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Names of Defendants: Martin R. Bothwell III and ThreeSource Inc. 401(k) Plan

Date of Action: Feb. 24, 2015

Type of Action: Complaint

Names of Defendant: Jean Hanvik, SGH Communications Inc., SGH Communications Inc. SIMPLE IRA Plan

Allegations: From at least Aug. 8, 2005 to April 26, 2012, Jean Hanvik was the sole owner of SGH Communications in Lakeville, Minnesota. SGH Communications Inc. was the plan administrator for the SGH Communications Inc. SIMPLE IRA Plan.

WATERVILLE, Kan. — He walked into the grain storage bin on his own two feet, but he left in an ambulance. The 35-year-old had been working for the Beattie Farmers Union Cooperative for about a year when one day he became entangled in an auger that was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning out the bin. At the hospital, doctors amputated all the toes on his left foot. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the Aug.

Employer name and location: Bentley Laboratories LLC, which manufactures products for the beauty and pharmaceutical industries, is located in the Raritan Center at 111 Fieldcrest Avenue in Edison, New Jersey. Joulé Clinical & Scientific Staffing Solutions, a division of System One, provides staffing services to Bentley Laboratories and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

As many as 50 temporary workers were on site during peak season at Bentley's manufacturing facility in Edison.

Employer name: Kingspan Insulated Panels operating as Kingspan Benchmark

Investigation site: 720 Marion Road, Columbus, Ohio

Corporate address: 726 Summerhill Drive, Deland, Florida

WASHINGTON — Workers in legal, same-sex marriages, regardless of where they live, will now have the same rights as those in opposite-sex marriages to federal job-protected leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for a spouse with a serious health condition. The U.S. Labor Department announced a rule change to the FMLA today in keeping with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Windsor.

Employer Name: Angel Brothers Enterprises Ltd.

Inspection Site: Baytown, Texas

Date Inspection Initiated and What Prompted the Inspection: The complaint-driven investigation began August 2014 as part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's National Emphasis Program on Trenching and Excavation.

ESCANABA, Mich. — Once again, workers were exposed to dangerous amputation hazards while operating press brakes, which cut large metal pieces weighing up to 450 tons, because safety mechanisms were not in place at Basic Marine Inc. In the past six years, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors have found similar hazards three times at the Escanaba-based shipyard and boat fabricating facility where a worker's arm was amputated in 2008.

Employer name: Arora Technologies doing business as ATI Foil Inc.

Inspection site: 2615 Memorial Parkway SW, Huntsville, Alabama 35811

Date inspection initiated: OSHA initiated the investigation on Aug. 6, 2014, after receiving a complaint.

Inspection findings:

Employer name: Transformers Construction Services Inc., Jacksonville, Florida, was subcontracted by A&G Construction Group Inc.

Inspection site: 153 Forest Edge Drive, St. Johns, Florida 32259

Date inspection initiated: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated the inspection on Oct. 1, 2014, as part of the agency's Regional Emphasis Program on Falls in Construction.

WASHINGTON, D.C. —— Every day in this country, construction workers fall. One wrong step and they're tumbling down a steeply pitched roof, sliding or dropping off an unstable ladder, or left hanging from a scaffold. The difference between an unexpected stumble and tragedy is simple: fall protection.

BOSTON — A follow-up investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has found that Whately agribusiness Chang & Sons Enterprises Inc., and its owner Sidney Chang, continue to deny workers the wages they have legally earned, despite prior investigations and a legal judgment requiring the employer to pay back wages and comply with federal wage and hour laws.

Employer Name: Richardson Milling Inc.

Location: Dawn, Texas

Date Inspection Initiated and What Prompted the Inspection: The inspection, initiated in October as part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Regional Emphasis Program for industries engaged in grain handling activities, has resulted in the issuance of 11 serious violations.

Investigation Findings: The investigation by OSHA's Lubbock Area Office resulted in citations for failing to:

BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — After nearly six years of litigation, a federal district court in Philadelphia recently entered a $39.8 million judgment, protecting the rights of workers who participated in more than 400 death benefit plans mismanaged by John J. Koresko V; companies he controlled; and a former associate, Jeanne Bonney. The defendants are permanently barred from serving as fiduciaries to any employee benefit plan and, with the exception of Bonney, must make restitution to the plans.

BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — After nearly six years of litigation, a federal district court in Philadelphia recently entered a $39.8 million judgment, protecting the rights of workers who participated in more than 400 death benefit plans mismanaged by John J. Koresko V; companies he controlled; and a former associate, Jeanne Bonney. The defendants are permanently barred from serving as fiduciaries to any employee benefit plan and, with the exception of Bonney, must make restitution to the plans.

OSHA proposes $80,100 in fines for Covanta Energy Bristol Inc.

Employer name: Covanta Energy Bristol Inc.

Inspection site: 170 Enterprise Rd., Bristol, Conn. 06010

Date inspection initiated: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began an inspection on Oct. 1, 2014, in response to a complaint.