SIOUX FALLS, SD – A federal whistleblower investigation found a South Dakota-based helicopter ambulance servicer retaliated against a mechanic who reported safety concerns and filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration.

DENVER ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health is recognizing the continued commitment to employees’ well-being by three North Dakota employers – Bayer Northern Production Company, West Fargo, CF Industries in Grand Forks and NuStar Energy, Central East Region in Jamestown – all of which recorded zero recordable injury or illness incidents in 2022. 

BUFFALO GROVE, IL ‒ Down about seven feet from the surface, the 27-year-old worker of a Burr Ridge plumbing contracting business was fixing a residential water line damaged during excavation when the trench’s walls collapsed, crushing him fatally in December 2022 at a Buffalo Grove work site. Another employee in the trench with him at the time escaped the trench unharmed.

DENVER ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health is recognizing the continued commitment to employees’ well-being by three Wyoming employers – Black Hills Energy, Cheyenne Prairie Generating Station in Cheyenne; Phillips 66, Casper Station in Casper; and Phillips 66, Rock Springs Terminal in Rock Springs – all of which recorded zero recordable injury or illness incidents in 2022. 

DENVER ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health is recognizing the continued commitment to employees’ well-being by nine Montana employers all of which recorded zero recordable injury or illness incidents in 2022. 

Participant:         Phillips 66 Bulk Petroleum Storage Facility and Terminal

Casper, Wyoming

What:                   OSHA Region VIII Voluntary Protection Programs’ Decades of Excellence Award

When:                   June 7, 2023

Participants:  U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational    

Safety and Health Administration

            Mexican Consulate, Albuquerque, New Mexico

GREENVILLE, IL – Federal workplace safety inspectors found a Fairmont City roofing contractor continuing to endanger employees to deadly fall hazards by not providing them fall protection, as required by federal law.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced an upcoming listening session with business owners, employers and workers to collect input on how organizations make safety and health a core value in their workplaces.

LAMESA, TX – A federal workplace safety inspection at another Dollar General store, this time in Lamesa, found exit routes and walkways blocked and merchandise unsafely stacked, conditions that exposed employees and others to fire hazards and struck-by injuries that have been common cause for violations at the company’s stores across the country.

WATERLOO, IL ‒ A Breese contractor who ignored a city engineer’s repeated verbal and written instructions to use trench cave-in protection faces penalties after federal workplace safety inspectors found the employer failed to protect workers installing storm sewer lines from potentially deadly trench cave-ins on a least five occasions.

DEDEDO, GUAM – The U.S. Department of Labor will send experts from its Occupational Safety and Health Administration to areas of Guam hardest hit by Typhoon Mawar to protect the safety and health of recovery workers as part of the federal response and recovery effort after the storm struck the island in late May.

ATLANTA – Workplace safety inspections by the U.S. Department of Labor in Alabama and Florida have found three Dollar General locations exposing employees to fire hazards and other unsafe conditions.

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

                       The Safety Council of Greater St. Louis                  

What:             Workplace safety and health alliance

HARTSHORNE, OK – When federal workplace safety investigators opened inspections in December 2022 at two Dollar General stores in southeast Oklahoma, they found blocked exit routes and walkways exposing employees to fire hazards, the same types of violations investigators discovered in stores across the nation operated by the national discount retailer.

COLUMBUS, OH ‒ A Columbus children’s hospital failed to protect employees — including nurses and mental health professionals — from patients whose bites, kicks, punches and other assaults caused serious injuries, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.

WASHINGTON – Unsafe conditions typically found by federal workplace safety inspectors at discount stores operated by Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC nationwide were on display again during U.S. Department of Labor inspections at nine locations in Maine, North Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin in late 2022.

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

What: Fiscal Year 2023 Susan Harwood grant funding opportunity outreach

When: May 24, 2023, 2-3 p.m. EDT  

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

                              and Health Administration- Lubbock Area Office          

                              Damage Prevention Council of Texas

                             City of Lubbock Texas- Engineering Department              

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of more than $12.7 million in funding to make more good jobs available to the U.S. workforce by supporting training initiatives designed to promote safety and health in the nation’s workplaces.