OSHA fines company in KJ trench collapse - Times Herald-Record
By OSHA - Google News | August 15, 2008 - 11:36 pm - Posted in Common

OSHA fines company in KJ trench collapse
Times Herald-Record, NY - 19 hours ago
“It was a very serious situation,” said Terry Harding, assistant area director for OSHA. “Very often, trench collapses result in fatalities.”

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OSHA fines company in KJ trench collapse - Times Herald-Record
By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 11:36 pm - Posted in Common

OSHA fines company in KJ trench collapse
Times Herald-Record, NY - 20 hours ago
... responsible for a trench collapse that nearly killed a man in the spring has paid $4500 in fines to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. ...

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Mercury vapor found at USNA - Annapolis Capital
By OSHA - Google News | - 11:00 pm - Posted in Common

Mercury vapor found at USNA
Annapolis Capital, MD - 20 hours ago
The Centers for Disease Control sets the maximum safe level at 1000 nanograms per cubic meter of air, but OSHA sets the maximum allowable level at 100000 ...

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Feds probe Quincy crane collapse - Boston Herald
By OSHA - Google News | - 9:10 pm - Posted in Common

Feds probe Quincy crane collapse
Boston Herald, United States - 22 hours ago
The photographs were taken by a labor management corporate trust safety inspector who was at the site to ensure proper OSHA standards were being adhered to, ...

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Risking their lives is routine to Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue workers - Sun-Sentinel.com
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Risking their lives is routine to Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue workers
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - 23 hours ago
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating Wednesday's scaffolding accident and has not released a cause. ...

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Farmworker deaths - La Opinión
By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 8:15 pm - Posted in Common

Farmworker deaths
La Opinión, CA - 23 hours ago
It is good that Cal OSHA, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, levied several substantial fines to farm owners and employers, ...

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EPA Awards TCEQ $310,000 to Conduct Air Monitoring
By U.S. EPA News | - 9:09 am - Posted in Common
(Dallas, Texas – August 15, 2008) The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $310,000 to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in a cooperative agreement to participate in a national air toxics monitoring trends network

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Four million scrap tires removed from U.S.-Mexico border, reducing fire, disease risk Tire Initiative signed during this year’s Border Governors Conference
By U.S. EPA News | - 8:41 am - Posted in Common
(8/15/2008 -- LOS ANGELES) Environmental Secretaries from all ten U.S. – Mexico border states met today in Hollywood, Calif., to sign the Tire Initiative Letter of Understanding, which implements tire pile prevention measures and strives to eliminate tire piles public health risks

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ThyssenKrupp Safway, Inc. - ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press …
By "contractor safety" - Google News | - 5:54 am - Posted in Common
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release), NY - Aug 15, 2008 And, for the second year in a row, the branch has also won the Contractor Safety Award from the Benicia Refinery. "This is an outstanding achievement for ...

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ThyssenKrupp Safway, Inc. - ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)
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ThyssenKrupp Safway, Inc.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release), NY - Aug 15, 2008
And, for the second year in a row, the branch has also won the Contractor Safety Award from the Benicia Refinery. "This is an outstanding achievement for ...

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