Selma, AL- Miller & Co. Inc. is facing $218,192 in OSHA penalties for failing to protect their employees from struck-by hazards and improper machine guarding after a worker was injured, resulting in their death. Founded in 1923, Miller & Co. Inc. is an Alabama-based hardwood business producing lumber and flooring. A piece of wood fatally…
Read MoreMedford, NJ – DuBell Lumber has been issued $106,432 in OSHA penalties following a federal workplace safety investigation that revealed multiple failures to protect the health and safety of workers at its New Jersey facility. DuBell Lumber was investigated in response to a complaint of workplace safety and health hazards. Federal safety inspectors identified failures to…
Read MoreAthol, ID – An accident is under investigation at the northern Idaho lumber mill where a worker died in an industrial accident last Friday. A 45-year-old man was fatally injured while trying to clear a broken piece of wood from a machine at the Merritt Brothers Lumber Company. Emergency workers were called to the mill just after 6a.m., and…
Read MoreMarathon, WI – Menzner Lumber & Supply faces a $260,113 fine after an employee’s workplace injury triggered an OSHA investigation. Unfortunately, this was not the first incident of amputation at the Marathon (WI) facility. In June of this year, a 24-year-old worker at suffered a partial amputation of his right middle finger while servicing a machine. Federal inspectors found…
Read MoreLinden, AL – Linden Lumber has been cited for two repeated and seven serious safety, health, and LOTO violations. OSHA found that workers were exposed to falls and unguarded belts, pulleys and machinery, according to their Oct 13, 2015 report. The Alabama lumber mill faces fines totaling $43,116 for continually exposing workers to potentially deadly workplace…
Read MoreTacoma, WA – Manke Lumber Company Inc., of Tacoma, has been fined by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) for 25 serious and 11 general safety and health violations, totaling $87,120. An investigation began in December of 2014, following the fatal injury of a worker at the facility. Jeffrey Busha died on the job at…
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