Shipbuilding company fined following Virginia steelworker’s death

Fed-OSHA has fined Newport News Shipbuilding more than $13,000 in connection with its investigation after an employee fell to his death in December. The agency’s investigation did not determine a cause for the fall, but cited the shipyard for an unrelated violation found during the fall. Daily Press

Logging accident kills Iowa man

Iowa OSHA is investigating after a 38-year-old man was killed last week in a logging accident. A co-worker was pulling cut trees with a log skidder when one of the logs he was pulling struck a standing tree, which fell over and struck the other man, who sustained fatal injuries. The Courier

Arborist falls to death from tree at North Carolina zoo

A worker at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro died Thursday morning while engaged in an aerial rescue drill when he fell 20-30 feet from a tree. The drill reportedly involved two arborists, one simulating a person trapped in a tree and the other performing a rescue. ABC11 (Raleigh-Durham, N.C.) [with video]

Grocery company sued over ammonia leak

A personal injury lawsuit has been filed against Brookshire Grocery Company in connection with a 2017 ammonia leak on grounds workers at the company’s facility in Tyler, Texas suffered including lung damage, decreased lung and pulmonary function and risk of developing long-term debilitating lung diseases. The lawsuit sites also alleges ammonia alarms in several of the buildings were not operational and that employees became aware of the exposure by a text message from a colleague arriving to work. KLTV (Tyler, Texas)

IOSHA investigating industrial accident at factory

Indiana OSHA is investigating after a worker was critically injured in a machinery-related incident at a DeKalb County custom molded medical devices factory on Thursday. Fort Wayne’s NBC [with video]