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A northern Wisconsin wood processor where a 16-year-old died after an industrial accident in June 2023 was one of 12 employers listed for egregious workplace hazards by a national advocacy group Thursday. The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) put Florence Hardwoods on its 2024 “Dirty Dozen” list of “unsafe and reckless employers […] The post Work safety advocates list Wisconsin lumber mill where teen died among ‘unsafe’ employers...

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Minors were hired to sanitize equipment including head splitters, jaw pullers, meat bandsaws and neck clippers, the DOL alleges.

The Alabama Policy Institute wants to loosen child labor laws to address a labor shortage caused by too-low pay.

Florida lawmakers want to let children to work full-time hours, even on school nights

The Florida House of Representatives will consider a bill that allows 16- and 17-year-olds to work over 30 hours a week year-round

Think about your first job. Maybe it was delivering pizza, bagging groceries, busing tables or doing landscaping work. Did you get enough training to

The Wisconsin-based Tigerton Lumber Company has been fined $283,608 over the on-the-job death of 46-year-old employee Scott Spiegel in 2018.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A northeastern Wisconsin lumber company has been fined nearly $300,000 by federal safety regulators for continuing to expose workers to a

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Tuesday that it fined Tigerton Lumber Company $283,608 on Dec. 22.