Hospital Rolls Out Panic-Button Wearables Amid Workplace Violence Concerns Beebe Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system in Lewes, Delaware, has partnered with Canopy to deploy Canopy Protect, a wearable safety button that instantly alerts nearby coworkers and security when a frontline caregiver activates it, distributing devices to roughly 1,500 staff members starting in its Emergency […]

  Oregon OSHA Report Fines Ski Resort $43K Over Worker Death The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OR-OSHA) fined Mt. Hood Skibowl LLC $43,180, including a $40,265 “Serious” penalty tied to a workplace fatality, after an investigation into an April 30 chairlift maintenance basket failure that killed a 30-year-old technician and critically injured another […]

  New Law Adds Criminal Penalties for Violence Against Workers Louisiana’s Behind the Counter Protection Act, which took effect Aug. 1, establishes new criminal penalties for threats and acts of workplace violence against customer-facing workers in retail stores, restaurants, convenience stores, gas stations, pharmacies and similar establishments. Simple assault against a protected employee carrying penalties […]

  OSHA Reopens Comment Period on Respirator Rule for 13 Toxic Substances The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on July 22 reopened a 30-day public comment period for proposed amendments to substance-specific standards it first put forward on July 1, 2025, after its Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health reviewed the proposals at meetings […]

  Agency Charged with Safety Violations over Wildfire Firefighter’s Death Alberta’s Ministry of Forestry and Parks has been charged with six violations under the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act over the death of a 24-year-old wildland firefighter was fatally struck by a tree while battling the Jasper wildfire on August 3, 2024. The charges […]

  Fatal Equipment Strike at Marine Terminal Prompts OSHA Probe A worker at the Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore died Aug. 3 after being struck by a piece of equipment, prompting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to open an investigation. Police have not identified the man, but Jonathan Daniels, executive director of the Maryland […]

  Advocates: New Voluntary Heat Safety Rules Not Enough Arizona adopted a new set of workplace heat safety recommendations this spring, but worker advocates like Jazmin Moreno Dominguez of Agave Community Threads say day laborers, construction workers, and farmworkers have seen little practical change, since the guidelines carry no enforcement mechanism. Moreno Dominguez and other […]

  Pulp Mill Fined $800,000 after Two Workers Die from Toxic Gas Exposure The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Woodland Pulp Mill in Baileyville, Maine $794,456 after two employees, including a 20-year-old college intern, died from exposure to uncontrolled hydrogen sulfide gas during a cold weather shutdown on Jan. 27. Investigators cited the mill […]

  OSHA Probes Death of Contractor Trapped in Storm Sewer The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating after two contractors became trapped in a storm sewer during July 28 storms in Downers Grove, Illinois; one was rescued, but the other died. The agency has up to six months to complete its investigation into whether […]

  MIOSH Urges Review of Workplace Safety Practices The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration is urging employers and workers to take proactive safety steps after the state recorded 21 workplace fatalities so far in 2026, including three trench collapses within a two-day period, one of which killed a worker on July 1. Director Bart […]