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The two most recent cases, in 2022 and 2023, related to a lack of proper safety measures in place to protect workers against falls from as high as 2 1/2 stories.
American Petroleum Institute (also known as the Benzene Case), 448 U.S. 607 (1980), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. [1] This case represented a challenge to the OSHA practice of regulating carcinogens by setting the exposure limit "at the lowest technologically feasible level that will not impair the viability of ...
It killed 76 people, and remains the worst accident, in terms of lives lost, in Singapore's post-war history. It is also Singapore's worst industrial accident. February 24, 1984: Occurred on the night in Cubatao, Brazil around 23:30 a gasoline pipeline exploded in the favela of Vila Sao Jose killing at least 508 people, most of them children.
OSHA's protection applies to all federal agencies. Section 19 of the OSH Act makes federal agency heads responsible for providing safe and healthful working conditions for their workers. OSHA conducts inspections of federal facilities in response to workers' reports of hazards and under programs that target high-hazard federal workplaces. [8]
The Labor Department said OSHA has cited Case Farms 70 times since 1988 for 450 violations its North Carolina and Ohio facilities. "Most of those violations related to machine guarding, lockout ...
Last month, OSHA placed the plant in their “Severe Violator Enforcement Program,” according to a news release. Explosion leaves 3 injured at steel plant with past OSHA violations, Ohio ...
The Act created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency of the Department of Labor. OSHA was given the authority both to set and enforce workplace health and safety standards. [14] The Act also created the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission to review enforcement priorities, actions and cases ...
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