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"A safe workplace isn’t a privilege; it’s every worker’s right," writes Scott Overson, the area director for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Bismarck.
When we need to reach a little higher, we strap extensions—stilts—on workers’ legs. When fearing a fall, we tie workers to buildings with a length of rope, and then we hope.
OSHA fined the Texas billionaire's tunneling company for safety violations in Nevada, but the agency's regulators in the Lone Star State never opened a case into the business, the Express-News reports.
Governor Tina Kotek ratified legislation to improve worker safety and wellbeing in the e-commerce and warehouse industries.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A worker burned in a 2022 explosion during renovation work on the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium has settled his lawsuit against the project’s general contractor for $22 million, his attorney says. The settlement in Jeremy Rose’s lawsuit against JP Cullen & Sons was reached 10 days before the civil trial was […]