By OSHA - Google News | May 22, 2012 - 1:36 pm - Posted in Common

Careers: Carrie Hills-Mixer, QMG
Quincy Journal
... and interpretation standards widely accepted for testing workers in the occupational setting. She will be part of the Occupational Medicine team providing and reviewing services for an employer's OSHA- required Respiratory Protection Program.

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PBS Frontline Investigates the Hidden Cost of Fast Cell Service
Mission Local
... a dangerous practice in which the climber is not attached to the tower. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations prohibit free climbing, yet it was involved in about half of the fatalities FRONTLINE and ProPublica examined.”

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In Race For Better Cell Service, Men Who Climb Towers Pay With Their Lives
Kokomo Perspective
Neither was sanctioned in OSHA's investigation after the accident. OSHA cited just one company for safety violations in the case: Nashville-based Phoenix of Tennessee, the parent company of All Around Towers, the subcontractor that had managed the ...

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Feds Fine Company Behind November's Brighton Beach Building Collapse
Sheepshead Bites
by Ned Berke on May 22nd, 2012 The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration slapped SP&K Construction with more than $77000 in fines for skirting regulations in building a Brighton Beach structure, which collapsed in November killing one ...
Feds fine contractor for violations leading to deadly Brighton Beach building ...New York Daily News

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TucsonSentinel.com

Cell phone tower workers paying with their lives
TucsonSentinel.com
Neither was sanctioned in OSHA's investigation after the accident. OSHA cited just one company for safety violations in the case: Nashville-based Phoenix of Tennessee, the parent company of All Around Towers, the subcontractor that had managed the ...

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California Farm Bureau

Commentary: Comprehensive efforts show commitment to heat safety
California Farm Bureau
Agricultural leaders stepped forward to work with Cal/OSHA in developing the first-in-the-nation heat illness regulations in 2005; in establishing permanent regulations in 2006; and in strengthening the regulations in 2010.

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Tractor Driver Injured in Albemarle County Farm Accident
The Charlottesville Newsplex
There were no hazmat or environmental issues. While Albemarle County Police responded to the incident, the investigation will be handled by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) since it happened on a private farm.

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OSHA investigating fatal Arlington Heights explosion
Chicago Daily Herald
A police forensic team unpacks equipment to take into Arens Controls in Arlington Heights where a fatal explosion occurred on Tuesday. Firefighters stand at door B of Arens Controls in Arlington Heights where an explosion occurred Tuesday morning.

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OSHA announces creation of the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, in ...
Lexology (registration)
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced in a May 17, 2012 notice published in the Federal Register that it will establish a Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee (“Committee”) in an effort “to improve the fairness, ...

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Farm Accident off Thomas Jefferson Parkway in Albemarle
NBC 29 News
... so no further information is being released at this time. Albemarle police are not pursuing the investigation further. The accident took place on private property and is now an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigation.

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