Employer name: Langley Productions Inc., Santa Monica, California

Inspection site: Wendy's Restaurant, 4308 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska

Employer name: Langley Productions Inc., Santa Monica, California

Inspection site: Wendy's Restaurant, 4308 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska

ALLIANCE, Ohio — Twice in a year, Alliance Tubular Products LLC has put workers at risk of amputation and other serious injury by allowing dangerous machinery to operate unsafely. A July 2014 inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found three repeated and four serious violations, with fines of $139,800 at the high-end industrial steel tubing manufacturer's location in Alliance.

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.

Employer name: Brantley Brothers Moving & Storage Co. Inc.

Investigation site: 168 Elizabeth Ave., Newark, N.J.

Date investigation initiated: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated an investigation on Oct. 17, 2014, in response to a complaint.

Investigation findings: OSHA cited the company for 14 serious violations that included:

Employer name: Seitz Technical Products Inc.

Inspection site: 160 Limestone Road, Oxford, Pa.

Date inspection initiated and what prompted inspection: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated its inspection on Sept. 13, 2014, in response to a complaint.

Site: New Mexico and West Texas

Type of Action: Ongoing multi-year enforcement initiative.

BOSTON — Employees at Central Transport LLC's 170 freight shipping terminals nationwide use forklifts daily to move, handle, load and unload freight and other materials. These vehicles must be maintained according to recognized safety standards, so that workers are not crushed, struck-by or injured by defective forklifts.

Employer name: PVI Industries LLC

Site: Fort Worth, Texas

Date initiated: The Site Specific Targeted inspections, which are planned inspections at high-hazard workplaces where the highest rates of injuries and illnesses occur, began Aug. 28, 2014.

Investigation findings: OSHA cited the employer for 17 serious safety violations that include failure to:

Employer name and location: Northstar Contracting Group Inc., 32 Williams Parkway, East Hanover, N.J. 07936. The specialty services contracting company is headquartered in New York City.

Investigation site: Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, 1 Central Avenue, Morris Plains, N.J.

Employer name: Mercury Products Corp.

Inspection site: Mercury Products Corp., 1201 S. Mercury Drive, Schaumburg, Illinois

On Aug. 13, 2014, a safety and health inspection was initiated at Mercury Products Corp., by the Chicago North Area Office of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration after receiving a formal complaint. The company employs about 120 temporary employees in addition to its permanent workforce of about 110.

Employer name: Frick Service Inc., Portage, Indiana

Investigation site: 800 Sun Drive, Portage, Indiana

On Aug. 28, 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Indianapolis Area Office initiated an inspection after receiving a formal complaint alleging unsafe working conditions. Frick Services Inc. provides industrial, agricultural and residential storage that is serviceable by water and rail to its clients.

STOCKTON, Ill. — A 49-year-old man plunged about nine stories to his death while painting a communication tower near Stockton, Illinois, because his employer, Sherwood Tower Service, did not provide an adequate fall protection system while he worked high above the ground. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the Aug. 10, 2014 fatality, and cited two willful and one serious safety violation.

BOSTON — Lahey Clinic Hospital, Inc. will pay $190,000 to resolve allegations of systemic pay discrimination at its medical center in Burlington, Massachusetts. A compliance review by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs found that Lahey Clinic discriminated against 38 female housekeepers by paying the women 70 cents less per hour than their male counterparts.

Date of Action: Feb. 4, 2015

Type of Action: Complaint

Name of Defendant: U.S. Cotton LLC, 15501 Industrial Parkway, Cleveland, Ohio

Allegations: U.S. Cotton LLC, of Cleveland, wrongfully terminated the employment of a pregnant machine operator who requested leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act due to illness related to her pregnancy.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies will host two town hall meetings on Feb. 25 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, to inform current and former nuclear weapons workers, including those employed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, about the benefits available to them under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. Survivors of qualified workers may be entitled to benefits also.

UNION, Mo. — Workers were exposed to amputation and other serious hazards while operating presses at Gateway Extrusions' aluminum parts manufacturing facility, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. OSHA cited one repeated and eight serious safety and health violations at the Union facility, with proposed penalties of $63,000.

Employer name: Seaboard Foods LLC

Inspection site: Guymon, Oklahoma

ST. LOUIS — Four employees were hospitalized, two of them critically injured, after an explosion at a St. Louis trucking terminal on Aug. 6, 2014. The explosion's cause: a forklift's ignition source and a loose coupling connection to a liquid propane gas tank. An investigation of the incident by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found one willful and 11 serious safety and health violations at Saia Motor Freight Line LLC. As a result, the agency has proposed penalties of $119,000.