OSHA Enforcement

OSHA claims Ashley Furniture, the nation’s largest furniture retailer, exposed employees to amputations and other hazards. The agency says that during a 36-month period, 4,500 employees at Ashley Furniture Industries Inc., in Arcadia, Wisc., experienced more than 1,000 work-related injuries. In one case, a worker became a statistic when he lost three fingers in July 2014 while operating a dangerous woodworking machine without required guards and lockout/tagout procedures in place. Of the injuries recorded, more than 100 were caused by similar circumstances....More

Two temporary workers hired to cut and weld pipes at the Omega Protein plant in Moss Point, Miss., on July 28, 2014, had no idea that the storage tank beneath them contained methane and hydrogen sulfide gases and they had no training about the explosion hazard associated with those gases. One of the two men found out later as he lay in a hospital with a fractured skull, internal injuries and broken bones. The second, a 25-year-old man named Jerry Taylor, died when the tank exploded....More

For the eighth time since 2011, Domestic Casting Co.’s iron foundry has been investigated, cited, and fined by OSHA for not protecting its employees from safety and health hazards....More

 In the past few years, Olympia Chimney Supply Inc. employees have suffered crushed fingers, amputation of multiple fingertips and entire fingers, but serious safety violations persist at the Scranton-based company, according to OSHA. A June 2014 inspection of the Scranton, Pa., company once again found Olympia workers exposed to a number of serious machine hazards....More