Caterpillar employee โimmediately incineratedโ after falling into pot of molten iron, OSHA says
Caterpillar is being fined $145,000 due to a workplace accident where a new employee was โimmediately incineratedโ after falling into an 11-foot-deep pot of molten iron, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Half of Texas' nurses experience workplace violence. A Texas lawmaker says itโs time to protect them.
โBut I continued working.โFor decades, health care workers have faced rampant violence in the workplace. Well over half of Texas' nurses reported being subject to workplace violence in their career, according to a 2016 state study. State lawmakers have for years heard examples of the violence nurses face. Some health care workers who experience violence may not want to blame or shame violent patients who are ill or affected by medication. Health care workers and experts have said hospitals can add more security guards or metal detectors and instill a culture of violence prevention to help deter workplace violence.
Smithfield Foods pork plant faces OSHA fine from outbreak
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Four plant workers were killed by the virus during the spring and at least 1,294 workers were sickened. Smithfield Foods, which is based in Virginia, said it planned to contest the citation and $13,494 fine. But large outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the nation soon followed. After President Donald Trump signed an executive order in Apri l deeming meatpacking plants as critical infrastructure, they mostly stayed open.