by Associated Press Published: May 22,2013
Tags: bench, court, foreign worker, guest worker, law, lawsuit, legal, manufacture, manufacturing, masnufacturer, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding, workplace safety
PASCAGOULA — Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane Katrina. Three federal lawsuits backed by the Southern Poverty Law Center were filed in Mississippi and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 16,2013
Tags: aviation, construction, contractor, death, defense, employee, fatality, military, runway, work, worker, workplace safety
COLUMBUS — A contract worker involved in an accident at Columbus Air Force Base has died from his injuries. Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant says 24-year-old James Meyers of Columbus was working on a runway project on the base when he was injured. Merchant says it appears Meyers died from blunt force trauma. Merchant says [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 12,2013
Tags: Chicken, death, fatality, fine, food, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, penalty, poultry, processing, processor, workplace safety
MOSELLE — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Southern Hens Inc. with 43 safety and health violations following the death of a worker who slipped and fell into an unguarded screw conveyor while cleaning the conveyor at the company’s Moselle facility. OSHA initiated the inspection Sept. 9, 2012, in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 25,2013
Tags: bench, commercial fisherman, court, crab, fishing, fraud, guilty, impersonation, justice, legal, plea, shrimp, workplace safety
WIGGINS — A 46-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges that accuse her of posing as a federal worker to make nearly $216,000 giving fraudulent training classes to fishermen who hoped to get jobs cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. Connie M. Knight was living in Belle Chasse, La., when [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 26,2012
Tags: accident, citation, death, fatality, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, penalty, plant, wellness, workplace safety
PASCAGOULA — Mississippi Phosphates Corp. has been cited by the government for 40 safety and health violations following the deaths of two workers in separate incidents at the company’s Pascagoula plant. Occupational Safety and Health Administration say in a news release it has proposed penalties of $165,900. The company has 10 days to appeal. On [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 26,2012
Tags: complex, death, explode, explosion, facility, fatality, hurt, injury, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, plant, workplace safety
REDWOOD — A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit brought by a man who was injured in a deadly explosion at an International Paper Co. mill in Mississippi in 2008. Jeb D. Slade settled his lawsuit after a hearing yesterday in U.S. District Court in Natchez. The terms of the deal were not [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 3,2012
Tags: build, builder, building, citation, construction, contractor, federal agency, fine, infrastructure, inspection, job site, penalty, trench, trenching, violation, worker health, workplace safety
BATESVILLE — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Brocato Construction Inc. of Batesville with two willful and one serious safety violation following an inspection of two trenches where workers were relocating gas and water lines along state Highway 305 in Olive Branch. OSHA reports it opened its inspection as [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Southeast regional offices of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will increase enforcement efforts aimed at reducing an upward trend in construction-related fall fatalities. Falls are one of the four leading causes of employee fatalities in the Southeast, according to OSHA. Beginning Aug. 20, OSHA will be [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 6,2012
Tags: brownfield, cleanup, ecosystem, environment, federal agency, federal government, lumber, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, plant, pollution, public safety, timber, wildlife, wood, workplace safety
PURVIS — The cleanup at the former Davis Timber Co. site should be completed within weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Just last week, workers were putting the final loads of clay over a 3.1-acre where contaminated dirt and water-bottom muck were moved, said Scott Martin, remedial project manager with the agency’s Region Four office [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 24,2012
Tags: accident, animals, death, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fauna, Flora, food, hospitality, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil drilling, oil exploration, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, plants, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, vacationer, vacationing, visitor, wildlife, workplace safety
WASHINGTON — BP focused too much on the little details of personal worker safety instead of the big systemic hazards that led to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and wasn’t as strict on overall safety when drilling rigs involved other companies that they hired, a government safety panel concludes. Eleven workers were killed [...] [...]
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