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Nevada OSHA adds wildfire exposure guidance for outdoor workers

May 13, 2022

OSHA Nevada is adding wildfire smoke exposure rules. 

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Whistleblower wins round in fight against state workplace safety agency

Jan 19, 2022

Commentator John L. Smith says a federal appeals court “opened the door” for a whistleblower’s closely watched lawsuit to proceed against Nevada’s workplace safety agency.

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At a White House event on October 14, President Joe Biden encouraged states and businesses to support vaccine mandates to avoid a surge in cases of Covid-19.

Biden's vaccine-or-test rule for 84 million workers is back after court lifts stay

Dec 17, 2021
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said the costs of delaying implementation of the vaccine rule would be high. Employers have until Feb. 9 to comply with the testing requirement.
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President Biden promotes his administration's vaccine or testing requirements for workers at the Clayco construction site in Elk Grove Village, Ill., on Oct. 7.

6th Circuit Court 'wins' lottery to hear lawsuits against Biden's vaccine rule

Nov 16, 2021
In a process resembling a Powerball drawing, ping pong balls with the names of a dozen federal appeals courts were placed into a wooden raffle drum on Tuesday before a winner was drawn.
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People walk by a sign for both a COVID-19 testing clinic and a Covid vaccination location outside of a Brooklyn, New York, hospital on March, 29 2021.

A lottery could determine the fate of Biden's vaccine rule for 84 million workers

Nov 15, 2021
Lawsuits against the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test requirement for private employers have been filed in almost every federal appeals court. One court will be randomly chosen to hear the case.
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A nurse from AltaMed Health Services hands out the vaccine card to people after receiving their Covid-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California on August 17, 2021.

Blocked for now, Biden's vaccine-or-test rule for workers faces uncertain future

Nov 08, 2021
The Biden administration says it will defend its rule requiring some 84 million workers to get vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. More than two dozen states have sued to stop it.
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President Biden speaks about his administration's Covid-19 response in Washington, D.C., on July 6, 2021. In September, Biden announced his intention to require vaccines or testing for 80 million workers.

How a small government agency will enforce the vaccine mandate for 80 million workers

Oct 03, 2021
OSHA, the small, chronically understaffed federal agency in charge of workplace safety, now faces a big challenge: enforcing a federal vaccine rule covering 80 million workers.
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Tanks of liquid nitrogen are seen at the Foundation Food Group poultry processing plant in Gainesville, Ga. Six workers died after a freezer malfunctioned in January 2021.

6 Poultry Workers Died From A Nitrogen Leak. OSHA Has Issued $1 Million In Fines

Jul 23, 2021
They died when a freezer malfunctioned at the Foundation Food Group's poultry plant in Gainesville, Ga., in January. OSHA cited the company and three others for failing to ensure worker safety.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
A new federal rule requires hospitals and other high-risk health care settings to implement COVID-19 safety measures, including providing personal protective equipment to workers, ensuring proper ventilation and giving workers paid time off to get vaccin

Federal COVID Workplace Safety Rules Are Here. But Only For Health Care Workers

Jun 10, 2021
The Biden administration has issued an emergency rule that requires health care employers to take steps to protect their workers from COVID-19.
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Coronavirus Updates
Workers are shown leaving the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind., in May. A House subcommittee is investigating the Trump administration's handling of COVID-19 outbreaks at meatpacking plants, focusing on the Occupational Safety and He

Meatpacking Companies, OSHA Face Investigation Over Coronavirus In Plants

Feb 01, 2021
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis is seeking documents from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as three of the country's largest meatpacking companies.
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Nevada OSHA Fines 11 Businesses Over Coronavirus Compliance

Aug 18, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Walmart in Mesquite and a Nieman Marcus store on the Las Vegas Strip were among 11 businesses fined last week by state inspectors for failure to comply with coronavirus pandemic mitigation measures.

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The Coronavirus Crisis
Some Smithfield Foods workers and their families have protested against the company's decision not to close plants amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Some Meatpackers Question New COVID-19 Safety Guidelines

May 11, 2020
OSHA issued new safety guidelines recently, but some meatpacking workers and worker advocates, wonder whether the rules protect employees, or employers.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Hundreds of workers tested positive for COVID-19 at a Smithfield Foods hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.

U.S. Workplace Safety Rules Missing In The Pandemic

May 01, 2020
Some businesses and employee advocates say they're not getting much help from the federal government to ensure workers' safety from the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Workers at Amazon's Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse staged a protest demanding that the facility be closed following several confirmed cases of the coronavirus among staff.

Amazon Warehouse Safety 'Inadequate,' N.Y. Attorney General's Office Says

Apr 27, 2020
Amazon may have violated federal health and safety standards as well as New York's whistleblower law, the New York attorney general's office wrote to Amazon in a letter obtained by NPR.
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Union Wants OSHA To Investigate Workplace Complaints

Apr 22, 2020

Nevada’s largest health care union is asking state officials to thoroughly investigate workplace safety complaints at local hospitals.

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Water applied to cutting equipment, like this computer-operated saw, is one method to control silica dust exposure when cutting quartz slabs.

A New Safety Program Takes On Silica Dust Amid A Possible Crisis

Dec 21, 2019
It will now be easier for the government to inspect shops where workers might get exposed to lung-damaging silica dust. But it's unclear how much it will affect countertop workers.
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Samples of Silestone, a countertop material made of quartz. Cutting the material releases dangerous silica dust that can damage people's lungs if the exposure to the dust is not properly controlled.

'It's Going To Get Worse': How U.S. Countertop Workers Started Getting Sick

Nov 21, 2019
The story of the first worker in the U.S. to suffer lung damage after cutting a new kind of countertop material shows the way a workplace hazard emerged in this country.
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Shots - Health News
A colored X-ray of the lungs of a patient with silicosis, a type of pneumoconiosis. The yellow grainy masses in the lungs are areas of scarred tissue and inflammation.

Lawmakers Seek Protections For Workers Against Lung Damage Tied To Making Countertops

Oct 07, 2019
In a letter, they urge the Labor Department to ensure safe levels of silica dust at workplaces that cut popular "engineered stone." At least 18 workers have recently suffered severe lung damage.
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A worker cuts black granite to make a countertop. Though granite, marble and "engineered stone" all can produce harmful silica dust when cut, ground or polished, the artificial stone typically contains much more silica, says a CDC researcher tracking cas

Workers Are Falling Ill, Even Dying, After Making Kitchen Countertops

Oct 02, 2019
Irreversible lung disease has started to show up among young workers who cut, grind and polish countertops made of increasingly popular "engineered" stone. The material is more than 90% silica.
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A trailer loaded with chickens passes a federal agent outside a Koch Foods plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday.

Chicken Plants See Little Fallout From Immigration Raids

Aug 09, 2019
The Trump administration says its crackdown helps discourage illegal immigration. But workers' advocates warn it leaves vulnerable employees open to exploitation and unsafe working conditions.
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Construction Worker Dead After Falling In Hole At Job Site

Sep 26, 2017

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a construction worker at a southern Las Vegas job site has died following a 20-foot fall.

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Contested Safety Violations Lead To Reduced Nevada Fines

Sep 12, 2017

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Employers who contest citations from the Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration receive reduced fines about half the time.

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The Two-Way
OSHA says a manager's report of suspected fraudulent activity was at least partly responsible for his firing. Here, pedestrians pass in front of a Wells Fargo bank branch in New York earlier this year.

Wells Fargo Will Fight OSHA Order To Pay Whistleblower $5.4 Million And Rehire Him

Apr 04, 2017
The bank says it will appeal OSHA's order that it should compensate a manager who reported suspicions of fraud at Wells Fargo.
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The American Iron and Steel Institute is one of the trade groups that wants Congress to undo the stronger safety regulation enacted in 2016 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Congress May Undo Rule That Pushes Firms To Keep Good Safety Records

Mar 20, 2017
Labor statistics specialists under George W. Bush and Barack Obama warn that if the safety regulation is repealed, record keeping on worker injuries will become less accurate and less reliable.
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An oil field truck is used to make a transfer at oil-storage tanks in Williston, N.D., in 2014. It was atop tanks like these that oil worker Dustin Bergsing, 21, was found dead.

Mysterious Death Uncovers Risk In Federal Oil Field Rules

Mar 30, 2016
Oil worker Dustin Bergsing, 21, was found dead on top of a North Dakota oil tank in 2012. A journalist and a doctor looking into the death found a pattern of similar fatal accidents.
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