OSHA cited Blackstone Business Enterprises Inc. of Jamestown, N.Y., for 18 alleged willful and serious violations of OSHA standards for failing to protect contract employees against asbestos hazards.

Cicero, Ill.-based AMD Industries Inc. faces more than $1.2 million in proposed OSHA fines after allegedly exposing unprotected and untrained workers to asbestos. According to OSHA, five AMD ...

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Olivet Management LLC, a real estate development and management company that owns the former Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in the Wingdale section of Dover Plains, NY, faces a total of $2,359,000 ...

Federal safety regulators plan to levy a $127,600 fine against Oak Brook-based A.M. Castle& Co., alleging that workers at a company site in Franklin Park “were exposed to asbestos during the removal ...

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration today awarded a school janitor more than $193,000 in damages and lost wages after finding that she was retaliated against for complaining ...

An asbestos cleanup firm failed to take required steps to protect employees from exposure to the dangerous mineral while renovating a New Glarus nursing home, the Occupational Safety and Health ...

It is important to make sure workers are made aware of any presumed asbestos-containing materials found in buildings if they were built and installed before the 1980s. The importance of occupational ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Act generally requires employers to mitigate exposure of their own employees to workplace hazards. In limited circumstances, companies can be cited for OSHA ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a May 15th news release stating that it cited two Missouri contractors for allegedly failing to comply with asbestos removal standards ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established by the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) of 1970, which took effect in 1971. OSHA’s mission is to ...