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Two OSHA investigators arrived Wednesday evening, when the engineered steel building and a crane came down, and two more arrived Thursday, said David Kearns, director of OSHA’s Boise Area Office.
OSHA has opened an investigation in response to the fatality, the spokesperson said. The agency has a total of six months to conduct the probe and release its findings. The victim was not identified.
OSHA investigation of second airport fatality ongoing. A second on-duty death at the Austin airport — this time of a city Aviation Department employee — occurred last fall.
Fatality Narratives are one-page descriptions of recent fatal incidents. FACE Fatal Facts are bulletins that have been developed to address specific workplace hazards. Work-related injuries in the United States claim the lives of more than 5,000 individuals annually. [4] Men are most frequently on-the-job fatality victims.
In April 2022, OSHA said the warehouse “met minimal federal safety guidelines for storm sheltering.” [5] Amazon’s vice president of public policy, Brian Huseman, released a statement saying, “We have not identified any jurisdiction in the United States that requires storm shelters or safe rooms for these types of facilities.” [6]
Nonetheless the fatality rate in the United States is high relative to most other high-income nations. The 2013 U.S. rate of 7.1 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km is about double the 2013 rate in Sweden, which was 3.5 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that all employers maintain a record of occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities. Occupational fatalities must be reported to OSHA within eight hours of the incident. Failure to do so can result in legal action against the employer including citations and fines. [12]
This allows risks to be compared among different employment groups. To produce a fatality rate, the number of fatal work injuries in a given occupation is divided by the number of employed persons in that occupation, and multiplied by 200,000,000. The Current Population Survey (CPS) is the source for the employment measures. The advantages of ...