Horseplay Results in Worker’s Death From Hydraulic Grapple Christopher Boone Crimmins, 34, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter after allegedly crushing his 26-year-old coworker’s head with a hydraulic grapple while the two were working for a tree-trimming company in Apple Valley, Minnesota on August 20. According to charging documents, Crimmins was operating the grapple […]

  Driver Paralyzed After Accident at Employer Under Investigation A driver at Salt Lake City-based Saia LTL Freight suffered catastrophic injuries, including internal bleeding, spinal cord damage, a broken arm and a concussion, after being crushed between two trailers at the firm’s terminal Aug. 19 when another driver backed into the area at night. The […]

  Koch Foods Fined $167K Over Missing Evacuation Plan Tied to Fatal Fire The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined poultry producer Koch Foods $167,000 following an investigation into a Feb, 15 fire at its Fairfield, Ohio processing facility that killed 25-year-old Griffin Darrow and hospitalized two other workers. Investigators found Koch Foods failed to […]

  Insurer Aviva Rolls Out AI Tool to Catch Musculoskeletal Risks Early Aviva Global Risk Management Solutions, the risk consultancy arm of UK insurer Aviva, has introduced 3MotionAi, an AI-powered motion analysis platform developed with ergonomics specialist Cardinus Risk Management, to help employers identify musculoskeletal disorder risks before they become injuries. The technology, originally designed […]

  Firm Failed to File OSHA Injury Logs at Facilities Where Workers Died Only five to seven of 17 packaged salad maker Taylor Farms’ facilities obligated to submit annual OSHA injury logs actually did so in a given year over the past five years, with gaps covering at least four facilities where workers were killed […]

  Oregon OSHA Proposes Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Standard Oregon OSHA has proposed a new health care workplace violence prevention standard standard, implementing Senate Bill 537, a 2025 law requiring healthcare employers to conduct periodic security and safety assessments, develop workplace violence prevention programs, and provide annual violence prevention training. The rule broadens the […]

  NYC Sanitation Workers Face Rising Needle-Stick Injuries New York City sanitation workers have reported an increase in needle-stick injuries this year, with the Department of Sanitation attributing the trend partly to growing residential use of needles for GLP-1 weight-loss medications. Forty-nine workers have been pricked so far this year, and 140 employees have experienced […]

  OSHA Proposes $3.5M in Fines Over Acid Spill Response The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed more than $3.5 million in fines against three companies — BWC Terminals LLC, Coastal Environmental Solutions Inc., and One Way Environmental Services LLC — following a roughly 1-million-gallon sulfuric acid release near the Houston Ship Channel, with most […]

  MSHA Asks Court to Leave Miner Protection Rules in Limbo The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has asked the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to keep in legal limbo a Biden-era rule that would have lowered miners’ permissible silica dust exposure limit from 100 to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air, and […]

  OSHA Launches Probe into Deadly Recycling Plant Explosion Two workers died and two or three others suffered minor injuries after two explosions and a large fire tore through Brent Industries, an industrial textile recycling facility in Toledo, Ohio, on the morning of Aug. 18 during a shift change, according to Toledo Fire Chief Allison […]