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Grain Bin Accidents May Set New Record According to a new report from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, this year could very well be the deadliest year nationally for grain engulfment accidents since 2010, which currently holds the record for the number of grain engulfment fatalities. Every year, Purdue compiles and publishes a…

Broken Valve at DuPont Plant Leads to Texas Chemical Leak Fatalities Last Saturday, November 15, an accidental release of the chemical methyl mercaptan, at a DuPont Chemical plant in La Porte, Texas resulted in the deaths of four workers. As a result, the plant is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety…

A Sweetwater, Texas aluminum refining company that produces secondary ingot, slab and sow, Texas TST Inc., has been cited by the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for 13 violations, after an intensive inspection showed that the company was exposing workers to a number of hazards that could lead to…

A very extensive report was recently released showing that any worker in Texas has a 12 percent  greater likelihood of dying on the job than the same worker doing the same job in any other state. However, if that worker is in the Texas construction industry, that worker has a 22 percent greater likelihood to be…

Unsafe Shipbuilder: Multiple OSHA Violations According to a news release, Houston shipbuilder that specializes in manufacturing barges, Sterling Shipyard LP, has been slapped by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) with 16 workplace safety violations for exposing their workers to numerous safety hazards. These violations, which included serious, repeat and failure-to-abate violations, were…

Oil Rig Transport Helicopter Crash: 2 Fatalities Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard have announced the recovery of two bodies and the helicopter that had crashed in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday afternoon, June 11, about 90 miles from Houma, Louisiana. According to the Coast Guard, the civilian helicopter carrying two passengers crashed at…

Injured Oil & Gas Workers: Texas Workers at Risk According to a recent report in the Houston Chronicle, an analysis of data and public records regarding oil field accidents since the beginning of the oil and gas boom in 2007 shows a disturbing pattern, in which oil and gas companies employ shoddy practices and…

Meat Worker Loses Arm in Accident: Corpus Cristi Worker Injured In an extremely gruesome accident that happened on the next-to-last day of 2013, a worker at the Sam Kane Beef Processors plant in Corpus Christi lost his right arm below the elbow when it was sliced off by a meat saw. According to witnesses,…

Even though it’s relatively easy to prevent workplace tragedies involving forklifts, there seems to be a spate of these accidents in recent months. In one example, George Fischer Central Plastics LLC and Nationwide Plastics Inc. have been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for 16 safety and health violations. The citations…

Shop Towels Create Health Risks: New Study Released According to a new study recently published in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, a large number of workers in manufacturing plants throughout the United States are actually being exposed to significant amounts of lead and other hazardous metals when they use laundered shop towels in the…