QuickTakes 03/16/2015
- Adding inequality to injury: The costs of failing to protect workers on the job
- New reporting requirements: Employers required to report fatalities and severe injuries and illnesses
- Roofing contractor Stephen Lessard faces contempt charges and prison for ignoring safety hazards, failing to pay more than $400,000 in fines
- Court bans Mike Neri Sewer and Water Contractor from excavating work
- Hussmann Corp. fined more than $272,000 for willfully ignoring safety hazards following worker death
- Jasper Contractors faces more than $186,000 in penalties for continuing to put roofing workers’ lives in jeopardy
- Contractors face OSHA violations, fines after trench collapse buries and kills day laborer
- Lawsuit filed against New York hair salon for firing worker who warned co-workers of formaldehyde hazards
- Arizona whistleblower reinstated, compensated; DOL sues Idaho school district in whistleblower case
- OSHA announces final rule on procedures for handling retaliation complaints under Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Learn how to get involved in the 2015 National Safety Stand-Down
- Partnership to build Atlanta Braves Stadium will focus on protecting workers
- New study shows workers may fear talking to doctor about job-related asthma
- Whistleblower protections for temporary workers
- Hazards in the meatpacking industry
- New Spanish resources available
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