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OSHA Warns Employers of Heat Hazards
With the entire country starting off to a hot summer, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is stressing the dangers of working in the heat. OSHA launched its Heat Awareness campaign in early May. Construction workers do most of their work in the summer, sometimes working 10 hour days, C and K Roofing and Construction Project Manager Chris Brown told reporters at WAFF.com. Brown, who manages sites in Huntsville, Alabama, says safety if a top priority for his crews. “Between one and two o’clock, I have the guys come off the roofs and I have them take a break underneath the shade, trying to cool down,” says Brown. “If we continue pushing and pushing, someone’s going to end up falling out.” Approximately 4,100 worker injuries were attributed to heat in 2010, and 40 of the victims died from injuries related to heat, according to regional…
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OSHA Fines Contractor Following Parking Garage Collapse
Cleveland Cement Contractors Inc. was found to be in violation of several safety regulations following an inspection by the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA cited the contractor for six serious safety violations, including not following construction and design standards. Cleveland Cement Contractors Inc. is a contractor that specializes in parking garages. On December 16, 2011, several workers were injured following a collapse on the second floor of a garage. Other violations included failure to properly design, construct and maintain concrete forming and shoring systems, overloading shoring stringers, failure to avoid eccentric loading of shoring stringers, failure to adequately inspect forming and shoring prior to and during concrete placement and failure to guard all exposed protruding reinforcing steel. Clevaland Cement Contractors, Inc. has 15 days to either agree to pay the $38,000 fine or request a hearing with OSHA. It is a shame that it…
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OSHA Fines Facility for Failure to Report 42 Worker Injuries
The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited a Pennsylvania facility with multiple safety violations after a six-month investigation, according to The New York Times. OSHA inspected a facility in Palmyra owned by Exel, a company that packages Hersey chocolates. OSHA launched the investigation after employees alleged Exel had covered up worker injuries. The employees who complained to OSHA were student workers part of an international exchange program. OSHA discovered that Exel failed to report 42 serious injuries in a four year span—43% of all injuries. Many of the injuries required medical treatment. Hershey has been hiring foreign exchange students at their packing facilities for years, in its own facilities and subcontractors’ as well. “It was very clear to us that dozens of injuries had not been recorded,” said Dr. David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor in charge of OSHA. “Exel understood exactly what the law…
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