A Southington, Connecticut man faces a larceny charge after police say he demanded $25,000 from his employer in exchange for not reporting the business to state and federal authorities. Republican-American (Waterbury, Conn.)

David Michaels, the top official at Fed-OSHA, recently updated an advisory group on the progress of the agency’s Severe Injury Reporting Rule change that took effect Jan. 1, 2015. While Michaels noted that only 35 percent of reports result in on-site inspections, there are some things that will increase the scrutiny. In particular, Michaels said […]

Fed-OSHA has pledged to release a comprehensive final rule on crystalline silica by the end of the current administration, in January 2017. But work on a regulation has been slow. National Law Review

The NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program has released the line of duty death report from Kansas of a firefighter who suffered a heart attack during training earlier this year and later died. The physical stress of the air management training triggered his heart attack. Firefighter Nation

Great Dane of Brazil, Indiana has reported they will be modifying procedures at all of its manufacturing plants after safety investigations done by Indiana OSHA. The company says it will require all manufacturing plants to have a spotter to supervise certain trailer movements. WTHI (Terre Haute, Ind.)

Fed-OSHA opened an investigation Tuesday into possible violations of workplace safety standards in connection with a construction incident that sent two roofers to the hospital with traumatic injuries. The two men fell about 30 feet onto asphalt from a scaffolding they were working on. Cape Cod Times

Iowa’s junior Senator is pushing back on OSHA guidelines about the use of anhydrous ammonia. At a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management hearing U.S. Senator Joni Ernst expressed concerns raised by Iowans over OSHA’s recently issued guidance that negatively impacts anhydrous ammonia retailers in Iowa. Senator Ernst has […]

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., alleged last week that the National Labor Relations Board and Fed-OSHA were coordinating in a controversial move to change corporate liability laws. The change would redefine the legal definition of joint employer, making companies responsible for workplace violations at other businesses, such as franchisees and subcontractors. Washington Examiner

New York police Thursday said they’re looking for a scantily clad woman who decked a subway station cleaner, now traumatized from the painful assault. New York Daily News

Authorities say a man is dead after an explosion at a scrapyard in south Tucson. Rapid News Network