Safety Articles

Yale student dies after machine shop incident

A Yale senior was killed after a machine shop incident. Click here to learn more. Machine shops typically have numerous machine guarding issues - abrasive grinders; metal lathes; saws. It is essential this equipment is properly guarded and employees properly trained...

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Chemical Safety Board Approves purging provisions

February 4, 2010: On a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board tonight approved urgent safety recommendations on gas purging safety at a public meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina following extensive testimony and public comment.  The draft recommendations, which were...

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ConAgra Explosion – Update

ConAgra Foods Inc. has agreed to pay $106,440 for workplace safety violations at a snack foods plant where four workers died after a natural gas explosion last summer, state regulators said on January 12, 2010. Most of the citations against ConAgra Foods involved...

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OSHA Moving Towards Combustible Dust Standard

On October 21, 2009 federal OSHA published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) as a preliminary step in the development of a combustible dust standard. According to OSHA, since 1980, more than 130 workers have been killed and more than 780 injured in...

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