The Occupational Safety and Health Act generally requires employers to mitigate exposure of their own employees to workplace hazards. In limited circumstances, companies can be cited for OSHA ...

OSHA issued citations to Cambria Contracting Inc. for 11 alleged willful violations of the OSHA construction asbestos standard for failing to train and protect its workers at a Buffalo jobsite. The ...

OSHA has cited Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center for alleged lack of employee safeguards and the improper removal and disposal of asbestos containing material in a closed section of the hospital ...

The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing $392,000 in penalties, after citing Chicago-area demolition subcontractor KLF Enterprises Inc. with 36 alleged ...

Occupational asbestos exposure impacts more than a million Americans each year.1 Once hailed a “wonder material,” asbestos served a central role in American commercial product manufacturing and ...

MONETT, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3) - Three employers at a Monett residential nursing facility exposed workers and residents to asbestos hazards and failed to ensure safe removal of the known ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed Tuesday that asbestos was found in a SW Portland apartment complex and cited Tandem Property Management for 9 ...

In February 2019, NBC7 Investigates obtained internal documents from the San Diego Fire Department that showed the city delayed fixing a known asbestos problem at the fire academy. The documents ...

Before his shift at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y., in May 2021, a worker peed in a cup. Before he clocked out, he did it again. Goodyear shipped both specimens to a lab to ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia Beach’s fire chief is apologizing for a “misstep” that led to firefighters possibly being exposed to asbestos during a training exercise. “We will make sure we ...