by Associated Press Published: April 15,2010
Tags: fire, oil and gas, REFINERY, workplace safety
BATON ROUGE, La. — A fire at the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baton Rouge, La., has injured three workers. Company spokesman Jeff Neu says refinery firefighters quickly brought the blaze in a refinery unit under control Wednesday morning. The injured were transported to Baton Rouge-area hospitals. Neu says the fire had no impact outside the refinery. [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 12,2010
Tags: disaster, mining, workplace safety
MONTCOAL, W.V. — A team of federal investigators was expected to arrive today in West Virginia as officials try to figure out what caused the blast that killed 29 men in the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1970. While some of the dead have been laid to rest, efforts to recover the bodies of miners still [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 6,2010
MONTCOAL, W.Va. — Rescue teams planned to search again today for four workers missing in a coal mine where a massive explosion killed 25 in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades, though officials said the chances were slim that the miners survived, and the search may not be able to start again [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 11,2010
Tags: fire, manufacturing, workplace safety
GREENVILLE — The state fire marshal’s office will join the investigation into a fire in a building at a herbicide plant in Greenville. WABG-TV reports that the fire broke out about 6 p.m. yesterday at the Platte Chemical Co. after what authorities say was a small explosion. A nearby neighborhood was evacuated for a short time while [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: February 26,2010
Tags: occupational hazards, workplace health, workplace safety
There were 277,680 occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work reported for state and local government combined in 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fifty percent occurred in service occupations, including healthcare support and protective service workers. In contrast, 22 percent of the injuries and illnesses in private industry occurred in service [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 25,2010
Tags: explosion, workplace safety
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Federal safety investigators say enough natural gas to fill a professional basketball arena was vented into tight quarters shortly before an explosion at a Connecticut power plant that killed six workers. Donald Holmstrom of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board released early findings Thursday in the board’s probe into the Feb. 7 explosion at [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: February 18,2010
Tags: OSHA, workplace fatalities, workplace safety
FULTON — Mueller Industries has appealed a $683,000 fine levied by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration for alleged safety violations. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports John Hansen, Mueller’s vice president of manufacturing, confirmed the appeal was filed but declined to discuss specifics. The company was fined Jan. 25 by OSHA, which had conducted an investigation [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 10,2010
Tags: explosion, workplace safety
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two people affected by the explosion of a Connecticut power plant that was being built say workers had been spending more than 80 hours a week at the site. The son of killed pipefitter Ray Dobratz told The Associated Press on yesterday that his father had told him he was working 12 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 8,2010
Tags: explosion, manufacturing, workplace safety
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — A power plant explosion that killed at least five people left a section of the building too unstable for rescue crews to determine whether everyone was accounted for, a fire official said Monday. Piles of rubble were 10 feet tall in some parts of the plant, and mounds of rubble and debris were [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: January 29,2010
Tags: OSHA, workplace safety
WASHINGTON — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing to revise its occupational injury and illness recording and reporting (recordkeeping) regulation by restoring a column on the OSHA Form 300 to better identify work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The rule does not change existing requirements for when and under what circumstances employers must record musculoskeletal [...] [...]
