More than $305K in proposed fines for Prestige Industries Paterson, New Jersey, location

PATERSON, N.J. — One of the region's largest commercial laundry companies continues to expose its employees to the same workplace hazards that contributed to the 2011 death of a 24-year-old worker at a Prestige Industries LLC facility in Bay Shore, New York.

Date of action: Sept. 16, 2015

Type of action: Decision and Order

Name of defendant: Masonry Services Inc. dba MSI / North Eastern Precast LLC

Employer name: Maverick Arms Inc.

Location: Eagle Pass, Texas

Date citations issued: Sept. 30, 2015

HARTFORD, Conn. — AmeriGas Propane LP employees at the Southington terminal regularly transfer flammable, liquefied petroleum gas from railcars into 30,000- and 60,000-gallon storage tanks. Once filled, tanker trucks transport the gas elsewhere.

Employer name: Stampede Meat Inc., Bridgeview, Illinois Reliable Staffing Services operating as Flexible Staffing Services, Lake in the Hills, Illinois Accurate Personnel of Chicago

Citations issued: Sept. 22, 2015.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration has awarded $8,441,000 in grant funding to 47 states and the Navajo Nation to reduce mining accidents, injuries and illnesses by supporting safety and health training courses and other programs.

US Labor Secretary: Paid leave for the good of our families, strength of our economy'

WASHINGTON – Continuing its efforts to support working families and encourage policies that reflect the realities of the 21st Century workforce, the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau today awarded $1.55 million in grants to research and analyze how paid leave programs can be developed and implemented across the country.

Chicken processor racks up more than $1.4M in OSHA penalties in 2015

CANTON, Ohio – A leading supplier of fast food and supermarket chicken is facing more than $1.4 million in fines this year for worker safety and health violations, including several that led a teenaged worker to suffer the amputation of his lower leg.

Funding to focus on resources for mine emergency preparedness, accident prevention

Type of Action: Default Judgment

Names of Defendant: David Stratton, IDS Sales & Engineering, Inc., IDS Sales & Engineering, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan

WASHINGTON — Supporting the President's goal to eliminate homelessness among U.S. military veterans, the U.S. Department of Labor's Veterans' Employment and Training Service today announced the award of $1.5 million in grants to help once incarcerated veterans considered "at risk" of becoming homeless. In all, seven grants will serve more than 650 formerly incarcerated veterans in six states.

WASHINGTON — Continuing its efforts to support working families and encourage policies that reflect the realities of the 21st Century workforce, the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau today awarded $1.55 million in grants to research and analyze how paid leave programs can be developed and implemented across the country.

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Agreement description: On Sept. 24, OWCP and NIOSH entered into a formal memorandum of understanding establishing a quality assurance program for X-rays used to evaluate whether claimants are entitled to black lung benefits based on the presence of complicated pneumoconiosis.

CANTON, Ohio — A leading supplier of fast food and supermarket chicken is facing more than $1.4 million in fines this year for worker safety and health violations, including several that led a teenaged worker to suffer the amputation of his lower leg.

HARTFORD, Conn. — The hospitalization of a Hartford worker for acute dehydration and kidney failure due to heat stress should not have happened.

An inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined that Shabazz Services Enterprise LLC lacked a program to inform and protect its employees against heat stress hazards after the worker began sweating excessively, vomiting and cramping on June 23. The heat stress symptoms continued on June 24, resulting in the worker's hospitalization for eight days.

Employer name: K& F Construction Inc., P.O. Box 6013, Martinsburg, West Virginia. The inspected work site was located at Suncrest Village, 100 Townshouse Way, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Citations issued: On September 18, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the company for one willful and two serious violations.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today awarded $1 million through its Brookwood-Sago grants program to seven organizations that provide education and training within the mining industry. The funding will develop and implement training and related materials for mine emergency preparedness, and help prevent accidents in underground mines.

The list of recipients and the amount of funding they will receive are as follows:

Who: U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration

What: The Mine Safety and Health Administration announced today that federal inspectors issued 193 citations and 13 orders during special impact inspections conducted at 14 coal mines and seven metal and nonmetal mines in August.

Where: MSHA conducted special impact inspections at mines in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Employer name: El Potro Inc.

Investigation site: 3396 Buford Highway NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30329