Participant:        

AMVAC Chemical Corp.

410 Simpkin Lane

Marsing, Idaho

SALINA, KS ‒ In a trench 9 feet below the surface, a worker employed by Precision Plumbing LLC was connecting a plumbing line to the municipal sewer in Salina in January when he was buried under dirt and rocks after a trench wall collapsed.

SEATTLE – The U.S.

Participants:  Wagner Smith Equipment Company

                        5701 Highpoint Parkway

                        Burleson, TX 76028

PAGO PAGO, AS ‒ A Pago Pago building construction company’s long history of violations of federal workplace safety and health laws continued after inspections at two American Samoa work sites where the employer exposed workers to numerous dangerous hazards.

TROY, AL – For the third time since 2020, the operator of sawmills in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi failed to follow federal workplace safety standards across its organization, resulting in a worker fatality at its Alabama facility and a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.

MIAMI – One worker died and a second needed a month’s hospitalization for a serious leg fracture after falling 35 feet when a suspended concrete pile struck the aerial lift in which they worked in December 2022. U.S. Department of Labor investigators determined their employer, The de Moya Group Inc. of Miami could have prevented the tragedy by following federal workplace safety standards.

Participant:   LPR Construction Inc.

                             1171 Des Moines Ave.

                             Loveland, CO 80537

GARDEN CITY, GA - An international freight handling company exposed dozens of employees at a Port of Savannah warehouse to potentially deadly hazards by allowing them to work with automobiles and motorcycles suspended overhead, the U.S. Department of Labor has found.

Participants:   U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores, New Bedford, Massachusetts

PORTLAND, ME – A federal administrative law judge has determined that Shawn D. Purvis, doing business as Purvis Home Improvement Co. Inc., willfully exposed employees to fall hazards at roofing worksites in Portland, Old Orchard Beach and Springvale between December 2018 and May 2019.

GEORGETOWN, DE – The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a Delaware salvage yard company and its owner after a federal whistleblower investigation found the company fired a smelter operator for reporting safety concerns.

PARKLAND, FL – On Dec. 31, 2022, a 28-year-old worker arrived from Mexico with his work visa in hand, ready to start 2023 with a new job at a Parkland farm where vegetables awaited harvesting.

DENVER – Cited 12 times since 2018 for endangering workers, a Utah-based solar provider allowed employees to work on an icy, snow-covered two-story roof in Johnstown without legally required fall protection in late December 2022, a U.S. Department of Labor safety investigation found.

Participants:

U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute for Safety, Health and Environmental Services

Archer Western E.R. Snell

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today signed an agreement with an alliance of trade organizations, labor unions and industry stakeholders to better protect people who do trenching and excavation work.

PROVIDENCE, RI – For the third time in three months, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited one of the nation’s largest discount retail chains, Dollar Tree Inc. for allowing hazardous conditions at one of its Rhode Island stores, this one in Coventry.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor urges small business owners and representatives from local government entities to join the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other government agencies for a series of upcoming discussions on the potential impacts of a workplace heat standard on small businesses.

Who:               U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

St. Louis Area Office and Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Apprentice and Training Program-St. Louis Campus

What:             Workplace safety and health alliance

MONTGOMERY, AL ‒ Had Piedmont Airlines made sure that a ground crew followed required safety procedures, a 34-year-old customer service agent might have avoided suffering fatal injuries after being pulled into the spinning turbines of a jet engine in December 2022 at Montgomery Regional Airport.