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Bears Bred For Movies Kill Animal Trainer, Employer Fined $9000
02/05/2013 Comments Off on Bears Bred For Movies Kill Animal Trainer, Employer Fined $9000
There are all kinds of jobs and all kinds of ways to get killed on the job. Being mauled by a bear is one of them. Wildlife casting agency, Animals of Montana Inc., has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for safety violations after Benjamin Cloutier, a 24-year-old trainer, was mauled to […]
Continue reading …Highest EEOC Verdict In History $240 Million For Abuse Of Mentally Disabled Men
01/05/2013 Comments Off on Highest EEOC Verdict In History $240 Million For Abuse Of Mentally Disabled Men
The federal government won a record $240 million settlement against a turkey producer that held 32 mentally disabled men in servitude while mentally and physically abusing them, some of them for more than 20 years. A Davenport, Iowa jury on May 1, 2013, awarded the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) damages totaling $240 million […]
Continue reading …OSHA Launches Initiative To Help Protect Temporary Workers
30/04/2013 Comments Off on OSHA Launches Initiative To Help Protect Temporary Workers
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced an initiative to further protect temporary employees from workplace hazards. The announcement was made during a program at the department’s headquarters marking Workers’ Memorial Day — an annual observance to honor workers who have died on the job and renew a commitment to […]
Continue reading …Workplace Safety: House Bill Targets Deadly Combustible Dust Explosions
20/02/2013 Comments Off on Workplace Safety: House Bill Targets Deadly Combustible Dust Explosions
By CHRIS HAMBY, Center for Public Integrity— A group of House Democrats has introduced legislation that aims to protect workers from combustible dust – a fire and explosion threat that has killed or injured hundreds in recent decades. Last year, the Center for Public Integrity examined the toll triggered by recent preventable tragedies – and the political and bureaucratic […]
Continue reading …Workplace Violence: Was Otzi The Iceman Iced On The Job?
18/02/2013 Comments Off on Workplace Violence: Was Otzi The Iceman Iced On The Job?
By ROBERT SCALLY — There are new leads in the coldest of cold cases. New evidence uncovered in the 5,300-year-old homicide case of Otzi the iceman points to a possible act of workplace violence. OtzI, the mummified Copper Age man found in a melting glacier in the Italian Alps in 1991, Otzi was a murder […]
Continue reading …OSHA Fines Bacardi $192,000 After Temp Worker Killed On First Day
14/02/2013 Comments Off on OSHA Fines Bacardi $192,000 After Temp Worker Killed On First DayLawrence Daquan “Day” Davis’ first day as a temp worker at Bacardi Bottling Corp. in Jacksonville, Fla., turned out to be his last day on Earth. Davis, 21, was crushed to death by a palletizer machine at the Jacksonville Bacardi facility in August 2012. Davis was cleaning glass from under the hoist of a palletizing […]
Continue reading …Abusive Boss? How To Deal With An SOB Abusive Boss
08/02/2013 Comments Off on Abusive Boss? How To Deal With An SOB Abusive Boss
Are you one of the many workers who has been or may become subject to abusive bosses at some point in their working lives? HR studies reveal that a half or more of all workers may be subject to abusive bosses during their careers.[1] That is more than 65 million workers, a huge number that […]
Continue reading …North Carolina Law Shields Walmart In Greeter Death Suit
07/02/2013 Comments Off on North Carolina Law Shields Walmart In Greeter Death Suit
For Rochelle Boswell Pender working as a Walmart store greeter gave her reason to live. It turned out to be a killer job. Pender, 71, died in 2011 after a Walmart loss-control employee and an alleged shoplifter fleeing the store collided with her. Pender was seriously hurt, dying of a head injury. Now a North […]
Continue reading …Death Of Temporary Worker: Bosses ‘Not Thinking Of Him As A Human Being’
04/02/2013 Comments Off on Death Of Temporary Worker: Bosses ‘Not Thinking Of Him As A Human Being’By JIM MORRISE and CHIP MITCHELL, The Center For Public Integrity— By the time Carlos Centeno arrived at the Loyola University Hospital Burn Center in Chicago, more than 98 minutes had elapsed since his head, torso, arms and legs had been scalded by a 185-degree solution of water and citric acid inside a factory on this city’s southwestern […]
Continue reading …MythBusters’ Choice: DOL Worker Safety & Health App Challenge Winners
14/01/2013 Comments Off on MythBusters’ Choice: DOL Worker Safety & Health App Challenge Winners
Chosen by a panel of judges that included MythBusters co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, here’s a closer look at the U.S. Department of Labor’s winners of its Worker Safety and Health App Challenge 2013. Prizes totaling $30,000 are being awarded to four entrants who submitted tools that best demonstrate the importance of recognizing and […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill