Prevalence Combustible Dust Explosions/ Fires

Yesterday on a cool clear quiet morning on the western slopes of the Ozark Plateau the neighborhood in Springdale, Arkansas would soon be aroused by a loud explosion from the wood product plant across the street. Mixing sawdust particles with plastic resins at high...

Citgo Refinery: Four Workers Burned

Citgo Petroleum, subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, a Venezuelan owned company in the U.S. has been mired with an onslaught of problems over the past two years regarding OSHA health and safety violations with it's failure to properly protect workers at all three of it's...

Corn-Processing Plant back in Operation after Fatal Fire

Two days after a fire claimed two lives at an Archer Daniels Midland corn-processing plant in Decatur, Illinois is back in operation."DECATUR — A corn-processing plant was back in operation Monday after an air-handling unit caught fire late Sunday, killing two Archer...

Occupational Health and Safety links

" Government Health & Safety Sites Australian Government - NOHSC Australian Government - Comcare Australian - Maritime Safety Authority Australia - Offshore Petroleum Safety Australian Capital Territory - Workcover Queensland - Workplace Health...

MAXINE: Tasting vs. Breathing - Investigative Report

When one goes to work in the general foods preparation marketplace, one doesn't expect that they would be working in an environment that is hazardous to one's health. Not so, according to an investigative report released by the Sacramento Bee. It turns out that working in the...