Employer name: Crothall Laundry Services Inc.

Inspection site: 9905 S. 13^th St., Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Citations issued: Feb. 9, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Milwaukee area office cited Crothall Laundry Services for six serious safety violations.

WOODLAWN, Ill. – The death of a 20-year-old worker killed when a tree fell on him during logging operations could have been prevented if his employer had removed damaged trees prior to conducting logging operations on a 40-acre site in Woodlawn, federal inspectors determined.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other federal safety agencies announced today that they have designated May 2-6, 2016, for the third annual National Safety Stand-Down. The event is a nationwide effort to remind and educate employers and workers in the construction industry of the serious dangers of falls – the cause of the highest number of industry deaths in the construction industry.

Employer name: Republic Wire Inc.

Inspection site: 5525 Union Centre Drive, West Chester, Ohio

Citations issued: Feb. 10, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Cincinnati Area Office cited Republic Wire for one willful, four serious and one other-than-serious violation.

SALINA, Kan. – A leading supplier of frozen specialty foods is facing more than $172,000 in fines after two workers at its Salina facility suffered amputations in separate incidents and a third suffered lacerations and burns.

Employer name: Case Farms Processing Inc.

Inspection site: 1818 County Road 160, Winesburg, Ohio

Citations issued: Feb. 9, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Columbus area office cited Case Farms Processing for two repeat and one other-than-serious safety violations.

Employer name: Warren Railcar Services Inc., 51 Railcar St., Warren, Pennsylvania

Citations issued: On Feb. 8, 2016, The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations for 25 serious, and one other-than-serious safety and health violations.

Employer name: Elan Chemical Company Inc., 268 Doremus Ave., Newark, New Jersey

Citations issued: On Feb. 4, 2016, The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations for 17 serious safety and health violations.

Employer name: Yannuzzi Group Inc., 135 Kinnelon Road, Kinnelon, New Jersey

Site: Calais Road and Sussex Turnpike, Randolph, New Jersey

Citations issued: On Feb. 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Parsippany Area Office issued citations for one willful and one serious violation.

Employer name: Ecco Lab Group Co. doing business as Eccolab Group  

Investigation site: 2801 W. Waters Ave., Suite B-1, Tampa, Florida 33614

Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Little Rock Area Office and the Arkansas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America, a national trade association for the construction industry with approximately 200 member companies in Arkansas.

Employer name: SNS Lawn & Landscape Services Inc., doing business as The Ground Guys, 716 Catherine St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Employers name: Kinsey Corp. Inc., 767 Debout Road, Venetia, Pennsylvania
Gillmann Services Inc., 1301 Beaver Ave., Suite 11, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Construction contractor Kinsey Corp. was contracted to install sanitary sewer, storm sewer, and other underground utility lines at the Settlers Pointe housing development in Pittsburgh. Kinsey contracted Gillmann Services to provide temporary employees for pipe installation work.

Inspection site: Near Ridge and McMichael Roads, Pittsburgh

Employer name: DDP Roofing Services Inc., at 20 Conchester Road in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania

Inspection site: Commercial construction project at 225 Washington St. in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

Citations issued: On Feb. 1, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations for one repeat and one serious safety violations.

Employer name: Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation Inc., Canyon, Texas

Location: Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Canyon, Texas

Citations issued: Jan. 28, 2016

Employer name: Whole Life Construction Llc, 306 Bird Circle, Stratford, Connecticut

Citations issued: On Jan. 21, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Whole Life Construction Llc for five repeat and two serious violations of workplace safety standards at a residential roofing job at 121 Anson St. in Bridgeport.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The increased likelihood that workers in high-hazard manufacturing industries – such as food, furniture, fabricated metal, nonmetallic mineral, machinery and computer products – will be injured on the job is leading federal safety and health inspectors in three Midwestern states to increase its focus on industry outreach and inspections to reduce injury and illness rates.

More than 340 workers died in fatal manufacturing incidents nationwide in 2014, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

O’FALLON, Mo. – Federal safety inspectors found a 5-foot high, 15-foot long pile of trash between employees at a Missouri Dollar General store and an emergency exit, one of nine safety violations that put workers at the O’Fallon location at risk.

CANTON, Ohio ‒ A 39-year-old worker suffered multiple broken bones after he fell more than 40 feet while conducting maintenance on a crane at TimkenSteel’s Faircrest Plant. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found the company failed to provide the worker adequate fall protection. The Aug. 7, 2015, injury was the second life-threatening injury at a TimkenSteel plant since May 2015.

Employer: Daeil USA Corp.

Inspection site: 1135 Towel Ave., Valley, Alabama 36854

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on Jan. 28 for one willful, five repeated, 10 serious and one other-than-serious safety violation. Daeil manufactures struts and other automobile parts for Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motor Co.