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OSHA Joining Forest Product Safety Training
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10/30/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Wcc
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The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division will explain best practices for keeping pulp and paper industry workplaces safe during a four-day conference in December.Organizers of the Western Pulp, Paper and Forest Products Safety and Health Conference added new topics on the fores...Read More
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OSHA Cites Auto Fabric Plant for Amputation Hazards
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10/30/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: OH | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Sidney, Ohio, automotive fabric manufacturing plant for 11 violations carrying proposed fines of $115,000 after responding to a complaint about workplace safety.OSHA also put Formed Fiber Technologies Inc. in its Severe V...Read More
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OSHA Cites Manufacturing Plant for Amputation Hazards
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10/29/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: OH | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited an Ohio garage door hardware-manufacturing plant for 16 safety violations, including exposing workers to amputation hazards, and proposed penalties of $147,600.OSHA Area Director Kim Nelson said that Napoleon Spring Works Inc. ...Read More
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Old Republic Reports $103M Net Income, Reversing Losses
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10/29/2013
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By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Old Republic International Corp. on Monday reported net income of $102.9 million in the third quarter, compared to a $14.8 million loss in the third quarter of 2012.Old Republic reported $353.1 million in net income for the first nine months of the year, compared to a $48.4 million loss ...Read More
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OWC Judges Voice Concern Over Scope of 'Safe Harbor' Law
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10/28/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Judges from the Louisiana Office of Workers' Compensation are expressing concern that the newly-enacted safe harbor provisions of the state's Workers' Compensation Act may hamstring them from imposing appropriate sanctions.Defense attorney Jeffrey N...Read More
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OSHA Extends Comment Deadline on Silica Rule Changes to Jan. 27
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10/28/2013
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The deadline to submit written comments and testimony regarding the U.S Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposal to cut the permissible occupational exposure limit of crystalline silica in half is being extended by 47 days to Jan. 27, 2014.OSHA an...Read More
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Owner of Gunpowder Plant Convicted in Fatal Explosion
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10/28/2013
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State: NH | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The owner of a gunpowder plant in Colebrook, N.H., was convicted of negligent homicide and manslaughter last week in connection with an explosion that killed two workers.The Associated Press reported that Craig Sanborn, owner of the Black Mag plant in Colebrook, was convicted in Coos Cou...Read More
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OSHA Issues Guidelines to Protect Workers from Toxic Chemicals
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10/25/2013
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Thursday posted on its website guidelines that businesses can use to reduce dangerous chemicals in the workplace as well as voluntary chemical exposure limits that are more stringent than mandatory limits employers must abide.T...Read More
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OSHA Orders Trucking Company to Withdraw Retaliatory Lawsuit
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10/24/2013
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State: CT | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Palumbo Trucking, of New Branford, Conn., and its owner to withdraw a retaliatory lawsuit filed against two former employees who raised safety concerns.OSHA said in a news release Wednesday that it also has ordered owner ...Read More
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OSHA Cites Metal Hatch Maker for Safety Hazards
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10/23/2013
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State: NY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited metal hatch maker EJ USA for 13 workplace safety violations at its plant in Cicero, N.Y.OSHA said in a news release that inspectors proposed fines totaling $56,000 and conducted an inspection in March as part of the federal...Read More
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