Tag: OSHA
275 workers a day die in the United States
Despite years of progress, AFL-CIO’s Death on the Job report shows we still have a long way to go
In the decades since the Occupational...
AFL-CIO sues OSHA to demand emergency temporary standard for worker protections
The AFL-CIO has filed suit to compel the Labor Department to issue an emergency temporary standard that would offer stronger protection for U.S. workers...
OSHA calls for fine against company following the death of two...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited World Wrecking and Scrap Salvage Services Inc. after two of its workers fell to...
Union contractors replace non-union company on jobsite where two workers were...
Work was at least six months behind schedule
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Fe Equus, the Milwaukee-based developer of The Last Hotel at 1501 Washington Ave. where two...
What they saw before two workers were killed
Laborers Local 42 members knew there were problems on the Washington Ave. jobsite where two workers fell to their deaths
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Laborers Local 42...
Workers’ deaths expose numerous unsafe work conditions, false statements, distortion, misdirection...
Laborers 42 had been working to organize the jobsite
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Joey Hale and Ben Ricks had only been at work for three hours when...
U.S. Labor Department enacts new rule to protect workers from silica...
Bricklayers have been working toward ruling for several years
By MARY ANN HOLLEY
Correspondent
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued its final ruling...
Bricklayers took leading role to ensure adoption of new silica rule
New rule will prevent hundreds of deaths, thousands of illnesses
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced a final...