Singapore – MW Group faces a $200,000 fine resulting from a fatal workplace electrocution. Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower has ruled that a professional Arc Flash Risk Assessment and safe work procedures could have prevented the 2013 fatal electrocution of a worker at the MW Group Pte Ltd’s Pantech Business Hub. Following a five day trial,…
Read MoreCusseta, AL – Ajin USA, Alliance Total Solutions, and Joynus Staffing Corp., have been issued fines of over $2.5 million by the Department of Labor. The auto parts supplier and the two staffing agencies it employed were issued 27 separate OSHA citations for safety violations following the investigation of the June 2016 death of Regina Allen…
Read MoreLebanon, TN – Lockout training and written procedures could have saved the life of Carlex Glass America worker Catherine White. White, 51, of Lebanon (TN) died in an industrial accident last week after suffering a severe head injury at the Carlex Glass America plant. Local police reported that the employee had encountered problems with a work station printer. According to police, White…
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – Bumble Bee Foods will pay a record $6 million to settle criminal charges filed after a worker burned to death in a Lockout/Tagout accident at their Santa Fe Springs (CA) plant in 2012. October 2012, 62-year-old Jose Melena was cooked to death inside a Bumble Bee Foods industrial oven. Melena was…
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