OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Dollar General was hit with $387,000 in fines for worker safety violations at three Southeast stores, the Department of Labor said Thursday.

Workplace safety regulators allege the carrier penalized employees who reported illnesses caused by toxic fumes.

Federal inspectors cited a sawmill run by members of the insular Church of Wells with multiple safety violations.

The U.S. agency that's supposed to protect workers' health has all but given up on setting limits on a dangerous chemical released in tire manufacturing. Meanwhile, workers are dying.

Those concerned about asbestos exposure at chemical plants include workers at the OxyChem chlorine plant near Corpus Christi.

Caterpillar is being fined $145,000 due to a workplace accident where a new employee was “immediately incinerated” after falling into an 11-foot-deep pot of molten iron, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

A federal investigation determined that, if required safety guards or fall protection had been installed, the 39-year-old employee's ninth day on the job might not have been their last, a press release from OSHA reads.

The pot of molten iron was heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

The 39-year-old worker in Illinois was killed on their ninth day of work, officials said.

A SpaceX technician suffered a head injury that placed him in a coma for two months while performing a pressure check on a Raptor V2 engine.

Dollar General was hit with $1.3 million in penalties after visits by federal workplace safety inspectors.

Last month, OSHA and federal prosecutors launched a probe into potential safety violations at Amazon warehouses.

A Labor Department whistleblower uncovered almost a half-billion dollars in federal government waste, a new report found.

Federal officials are investigating after a worker died at one of the retail giant's fulfillment centers on July 12.

Federal prosecutors said they're examining whether Amazon's relentless pace of work has led to possible workplace safety hazards.

OSHA is investigating after two workers became trapped inside a chocolate-filled tank at a Mars Wrigley factory in Elizabethtown, Pa.

Researchers are testing whether Far UV-C light can make indoor air safer.

The workplace safety regulator asked Amazon to voluntarily improve safety procedures for severe weather emergencies.

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday its investigation into the deadly collapse of an Amazon warehouse has “raised concerns about the potential risk to employees” during weather emergencies.

In December, a tornado hit an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, killing six workers, most of whom were contracted delivery drivers.

“The loss of this worker’s life was preventable and the employer must be held responsible,” an OSHA area director said.

The group’s road map for 'living with covid’ focuses on boosting indoor air quality, helping those with long covid and broadening the focus to other respiratory diseases.

The Biden administration has officially withdrawn a rule that would have required workers at big companies to get vaccinated or face regular COVID testing requirements.

The Biden administration has officially withdrawn a rule that would have required workers at big companies to get vaccinated or face regular COVID testing requirements. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed the withdrawal Tuesday. In early November, OSHA announced a vaccine-or-test mandate for companies with at least 100 employees.

Workplace safety regulator OSHA said it is pulling the vaccine and testing rules for businesses effective Wednesday.

Advice from U.S. authorities on the need for face masks has flipped back and forth since Covid-19 took hold in 2020. In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said immunized Americans could ditch their masks in most settings. It reversed course in July amid a rise in cases caused by the more transmissible delta variant. Now, with the quickly spreading omicron variant causing a surge in infections, the agency is urging wider use of medical-grade masks in the general public. It revise

The White House is pushing ahead with efforts to prod people to get COVID-19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration’s sweeping vaccinate-or-test plan for large employers.

The Mason County Courthouse was destroyed in a fire on Feb. 4, 2021, believed to have been started by an arsonist. Support from around the region has begun pouring in

Two rulings reveal just how hard-conservative the core of the Court is.

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision hinges on a new and alarming embrace of the right-wing culture war against vaccination.

Companies that used mandates to achieve relatively high vaccination rates may decide they have accomplished enough.

The conservative justices say that vaccine policy is Congress’s or the states’ job, but in practice they’re the ones calling the shots now.

"Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly."

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For companies that were waiting to hear from the U.S. Supreme Court before deciding whether to require vaccinations or regular coronavirus testing for workers, the next move is up to them. Many large corporations were silent on Thursday's ruling by the high court to block a requirement that workers at businesses with at least 100 employees be fully vaccinated or else test regularly for COVID-19 and wear a mask on the job. The Biden administration argues that nothing in federal law prevents private businesses from imposing their own vaccine requirements.

The federal vaccine mandate would have required workers at large private companies be vaccinated against Covid-19 or be regularly tested for the virus.

But the court upheld the mandate for some healthcare workers.

The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S. The court’s orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administration’s efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans.

As litigation stands, federal mandates for Texas Army National Guard members and employers of large businesses are currently in effect.

Advice from U.S. authorities on the need for face masks has flipped back and forth since Covid-19 took hold in 2020. In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said immunized Americans could ditch their masks in most settings. It reversed course in July amid a rise in cases caused by the more transmissible delta variant. Now, with the quickly spreading omicron variant causing a surge in infections, the agency is preparing to update the guidance again as many medical professionals urg

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a revised transcript of oral arguments over a Biden administration vaccine rule that clarified a statement Justice Neil Gorsuch made about the number of annual flu deaths.The original, uncorrected transcript quotes Gorsuch as saying he believes the flu kills "hundreds of thousands of people every year."This erroneous transcription prompted legions of tweets and at least one media report that tut-tutted Gorsuch...

The tenor of the conservative Justices’ questions suggested that the OSHA mandate, which would apply to about eighty million people, has little chance of going into effect in its present form.

Business groups, 27 states and some individuals have questioned the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Agency to impose a nationwide rule.

Justice Sotomayor professed not to understand the distinction between federal authority and state police powers during oral arguments.

President Biden issued the rules before the omicron variant drove Covid infection rates to new highs around the country.

Congressman says "sick postal workers, not shots in the arms," will do the most harm to the USPS and its customers.

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Citing Omicron variant, coffee chain says getting inoculated is the "best option" for containing the virus.

Citing Omicron variant, coffee chain says getting inoculated is the "best option" for containing the virus.

Starbucks says its U.S. workers must be fully vaccinated by Feb. 9 or face a weekly COVID testing requirement.

The justices will hold a special hearing on Jan. 7 to consider polices that could affect 100 million workers

Oral arguments in challenges to the president's vaccine requirements for health care workers and larger companies will be held January 7.

Separate cases involving private businesses and health-care workers have implications for nearly 100 million employed in the United States.

President Biden is pushing for the mandates as the highly transmissible omicron variant spreads around the world, threatening a new wave of the Covid pandemic.

The collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, has spurred questions about the company's workplace safety policies.

The Biden administration is asking a federal court to let it move ahead with a workplace rule that would require employees at larger companies to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face weekly testing.

A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers.

To enforce President Joe Biden’s forthcoming COVID-19 mandate, the U.S. Labor Department is going to need a lot of help.

The Biden administration is framing its vaccine mandate for private employers in life-and-death terms in a legal filing that sought to get the requirement back on track after it was halted by a federal court.

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers.

The attorneys general of 27 states have filed federal lawsuits challenging a vaccine mandate for employers issued by the Biden administration.

Officials say meatpacker JBS Foods Inc. faces about $59,000 in fines following the death of a worker who fell into a vat of chemicals used to process animal hides at one of the company’s meat processing facilities in northern Colorado.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t make many headlines.

“But I continued working.”For 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.

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.