Category: Workplace Injuries

After the recent death of a 20-year-old trench worker, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is fining the employer $275,000 compensation for an array of willful and “serious” safety violations. According to the administration’s investigative findings, the company failed to conduct daily site safety inspections – and as a result, the young worker died[…]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released its list of 2018’s top workplace safety violations – and the culprits are responsible for tens of thousands of preventable illnesses, injuries, and deaths every year. OSHA’s Top 10 – and Why It’s Important OSHA releases its list of top 10 workplace safety violations every year[…]

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), along with the colder temperatures the winter also brings with it some weather-specific hazards that impact workers. During the colder months, certain tasks – like working around damaged or downed electrical power lines, driving, and removing snow from rooftops – can be especially dangerous, which is[…]

Recently, members of Philadelphia Building Trades (PBT) held a news conference in front of an apartment complex in Old City to emphasize the construction violations taking place. According to PBT, the mold-ridden project is a good example of the types of sites it will be exposing in 2019. The PBT says that in the new[…]

Despite paying the maximum fine for safety violations that resulted in the death of a 23-year-old employee, a Springfield, New Hampshire-based biomass plant is still up and running. Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) oversees and regulates workplace safety and health, the organization still estimates that 5,000 hardworking men and women die from[…]