OSHA has proposed removing a major compliance deadline on fixed ladder safety – a change that could save employers billions in avoided costs.

Months after a fatal factory explosion in Shively, Kentucky's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined the company. An explosion at the AAK plant, which processes vegetable

The US Department of Labor cited Revoli Construction Co. Inc., a Massachusetts-based water and sewer line construction contractor, for willfully and repeatedly exposing workers to safety hazards in a trench collapse that killed one employee last year,

OSHA, the workplace safety enforcement agency, is launching a new voluntary program to streamline safety standards.

The cause of the explosion is under investigation.

Complaints from employees at Silfab Solar in Fort Mill have led to a couple of investigations by the South Carolina OSHA office. They’ve conducted site visits, and legislators want them to do more.

The death is the third at the Bladen County facility in the last 10 months.

Assemblywoman Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, wants district attorneys to take on what Cal-OSHA has failed to do adequately -investigate workplace safety deaths and devastating injuries.