Category Archives: Workers’ Compensation
OSHA to implement new reporting policy next year
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has adapted a new rule that would require all employers to report every incident of death, hospitalization, amputation, and loss of an eye sooner than previously mandated. Starting January next year, employers will have to report work-related deaths within 8 hours of the… Read More »
OSHA raises awareness about heat-related illnesses in the workplace
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor has launched its awareness campaign about the heat hazards that workers and employers in the outdoor industries face, a report by The Times and Democrat stated on June 1. For four consecutive years, the OSHA has aimed to educate both the employers and the employees about… Read More »
USS blast kills one
A blast that occurred at a U.S. Steel plant 10 miles away from downtown Detroit on Sunday, December 15 left one worker dead and two others injured. U.S. Steel Corporation (USS) spokesperson Courtney Boone said in an interview that the explosion at the company’s Great Lakes Works facility in Ecorse left 32-year-old remote control… Read More »