On July 20, 2001, OSHA announced the start of a National Emphasis Program to reduce occupational exposures to lead. According to OSHA, lead exposure is a leading cause of workplace illness and can ...

Exposing workers to unsafe levels of lead may cost a Black River Falls, Wis., company $250,000 in proposed penalties, says the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The agency alleges ...

Federal safety regulators slapped a Superior, Wis., shipyard with 29 violations — mainly for "willful" safety breaches — after finding that 14 workers retrofitting a Great Lakes freighter were ...

The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a July 24th news release stating that it had cited Scots Christopher Rule, LLC (“SCR”) for alleged violations involving ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations to Lead Enterprises Inc., a lead recycling and manufacturing company based in Miami, alleging that the ...

Lead poisoning is most often discussed as a hazard to children. But adults exposed to the neurotoxin suffer serious and humiliating consequences. As one man who’d worked at a battery recycling plant ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a February 4th news release stating that it had cited Tap Rack Bang Indoor Shooting Range LLC, (operating as The Gun Range) (“ISR”) ...

Gopher Resource faces more than $319,000 in fines after a federal investigation found the company willfully exposed workers to high levels of airborne lead. The investigation, which the Occupational ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration said a New Jersey-based company exposed workers to lead and other workplace hazards. OSHA cited Scot Christopher Rule LLC ...

The Agriculture Department violated employee safety laws when conducting lead abatement activities at its headquarters offices last spring, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently ...

As public and private entities continue to battle lead hazards, they've come together to provide useful information for asset owners and contractors encountering those hazards and undertaking lead ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 requires employers to provide their employees with working conditions that are free of known dangers. OSHA enforces the workplace safety and health ...