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2 Dollar General stores were cited by OSHA for padlocking their emergency exits shut
OSHA has cited dozens of Dollar General stores for violations including obstructing emergency exits…
Grace Dean
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How OSHA, the agency tasked with enforcing Biden's vaccine mandate, works - and how it'll go about making companies with more than 100 employees require vaccines
If OSHA were to inspect every workplace under its jurisdiction, it would take 129 years to complete…
Kelsey Vlamis
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OSHA says recent safety violations at 4 Dollar General stores illustrate the discount retailer's 'long history' of endangering workers
After inspecting four Dollar General locations in two Southern states in August 2021, OSHA found 8 …
Gabrielle Bienasz
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Dollar Tree was slapped with a $32,000 fine over a cluttered store, which Oregon safety officials said repeatedly endangered workers
Oregon OSHA said the investigation into the store in Wilsonville, Oregon began in November 2021 and…
Áine Cain
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Amazon will not receive a fine after one of its warehouses collapsed in a tornado, killing 6 workers
OSHA investigators found Amazon met "minimal federal safety guidelines" inside its Edwardsville war…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The top US workplace safety regulator failed to protect workers from unsafe practices during the pandemic, according to investigation
A Reuters investigation identified 106 US workplaces where OSHA largely ignored complaints from wor…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHA
Justice Clarence Thomas argued that OSHA's authority was unconstitutional. He dissented from the co…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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OSHA will begin fining businesses that violate the federal vaccine mandate on January 10
The mandate requires that businesses with 100 or more employees ensure the workers are vaccinated a…
Connor Perrett
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A paper mill in Alabama told authorities a worker died from a heart attack. He actually died after being electrocuted by machinery, the labor department says.
The company's lawyer also asked the coroner's office to change the cause of death to heart attack, …
Grace Dean
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OSHA scraps its vaccine mandate for large employers after the Supreme Court dealt the requirement a mortal blow
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked the mandate while challenges to its legality worked t…
Rebecca Cohen
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OSHA is investigating the Amazon warehouse collapse where 6 workers were killed
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration can issue citations and fines if workplace safety…
Dominick Reuter
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A worker died in a ship's cargo hold in Florida after 2 tons of paper crushed him against a wall, Department of Labor says
OSHA said the crane operator, who was moving seven-foot-high piles of paper, hadn't been able to se…
Grace Dean
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Meat factories making a 'good faith' effort to comply with safety guidelines are not subject to enforcement, OSHA says
At least 20 factory workers have died of COVID-19, and more than 5,000 are symptomatic or have been…
Isaac Scher
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Dollar General workers at a Florida store were left without a working restroom, OSHA says
Dollar General has racked up more than $21 million in OHSA fines since 2017 for unsafe working cond…
Pete Syme
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Dollar General has paid a fraction of the $21 million it owes in fines for hazardous working conditions
Dollar General has paid just $4 million of the $21 million it owes OSHA. The retailer was cited for…
Alex Bitter
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Biden extends deadline for businesses to meet COVID-19 vaccine-or-test requirement
The Labor Department won't take any action on testing requirements until February 9, over a month a…
John L. Dorman
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Enforcing Biden's workplace vaccine-or-test mandate falls to a 'toothless' federal agency that Trump gutted, experts say
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has limited tools at its disposal to enforce Bide…
Grace Panetta
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OSHA is investigating Apple over its treatment of employees
OSHA's whistleblower protection program will be conducting the investigation, The New York Times re…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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An employee at an Illinois food manufacturer lost a finger after getting it stuck in a machine, the labor department said
It was the 20th time the company had been cited for violating safety procedures in the past five ye…
Grace Dean
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6 McDonald's workers say they were pressured to work despite being infected in Chicago COVID cluster, according to new OSHA complaints
Two McDonald's who float between her store and others owned by the same franchisee have died as a r…