The Occupational Safety Health Administration has recently updated procedures to help whistleblowers who believe that their employers are not following safety laws in relation to nuclear and environmental safety or security, clean air, safe drinking water, solid waste, and toxic substances. Now consistent with OSHA’s other whistleblower procedures, the new…
The Philadelphia retail and car service company, Pep Boys, has been charged by the US Labor Department’s OSHA with repeat and serious citations. After an inspection at the company’s Hamden, Connecticut, facility, OSHA found that workers were exposed to numerous work safety hazards, including potential electric shock due to damaged…
Two Massachusetts contractors have been cited for similar trench violations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration within the past week. On February 25, 2011, the first contractor cited was A.A. Will Corp., of Stoughton, for willful and repeat violations of workplace trench safety at the…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently cited a Masssachusetts contractor currently working on the Hultman Aqueduct project in Weston for repeat and serious violations of workplace safety. The Barletta Heavy Division Inc., from Canton, has been charged with a $52,500 fine for these…
W.R. Grace, the chemical company that is accused of asbestos contamination throughout the United States, will pay over $800,000 and will continue cleaning their nine contaminated sites in Massachusetts. Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office, who made the claims on behalf of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), has recently…
The Beverly facility of the Northeast Hospital Corporation faces up to $63,000 in fines for serious and repeat violations of electrical hazards. After a hospital employee brought the workplace hazards to the attention of authorities, the Andover Area Office of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration…
Administrative Law Judge Covette Rooney has recently ruled to uphold the U.S. Department of Labor’s eight citations for excavation violations, numerous construction hazards, and $91,200 in fines issued to a Boston contractor for insufficient work safety at a jobsite in Newton, Massachusetts. Shawn Telsi, doing business as Life Time Homes,…
On January 20, 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Durasol, Corp., which manufactures hard gum erasers, for 13 serious violations of workplace health and safety standards at its plant in Amesbury. The manufacturer faces $43,800 in proposed fines. The citations were issued for…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has laid $238,000 worth of fines against the U.S. Postal Service for “willful and serious violations of safety standards” at the Central Massachusetts Processing and Distribution Center in Shrewsbury, Mass. Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Dr. David Michaels…
An OSHA news release from Friday says that Centimark Corp., a Chelmsford roofing contractor, has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for serious alleged safety violations. The contractor is looking at the possibility of $40,000 in fines after an employee was injured when…