Niagara, WI – Wood Fibers Inc. has been placed on OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program after consistently failing to comply with safety and health standards. OSHA has issued one willful, four repeat, and three serious safety and health violations based on an October 2015 inspection with proposed penalties totaling $152,460. Failure to implement OSHA’s past recommendations…
Read MoreSalina, KS – OSHA has announced $172,000 in fines against Schwan’s Global Supply Chain, citing it for three repeated safety violations and four serious violations for accidents due to unguarded machinery at the company’s frozen pizza plant in Salina, KS. In three separate accidents in 2015, one female Schwan’s worker lost a hand; another lost a finger;…
Read MoreCorinth, MS – Mississippi Polymers has been cited for 11 “serious” safety violations, totaling $56,0000, for machine safety and lockout/tagout violations that resulted in severe injury and amputation for two Mississippi Polymers employees in the fall of 2015. In both accidents OSHA investigated, workers were injured while attempting to clean machinery: On Sept. 28, a 41-year-old print tender suffered…
Read MoreAustin, TX – Austin-based nutritional supplement maker Genesis Today Inc., faces potential fines of $56,000 for not having the proper safeguards in place to protect workers from getting body parts caught in a machine. Additionally, Texas Management Division Inc., which provided Genesis Today with temporary workers, could also face a $7,000 penalty for not ensuring…
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