SpaceX has had seven OSHA violations in the past year. Despite the worker’s death, the next rocket launch is scheduled for May 21.

The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations.

A person has died following the collapse of an 8-foot-deep trench at a construction site in southwest Houston, specifically at Stone River Apartments during a maintenance project.

As global warming raises temperatures, a California work safety board has approved standards that would require companies to protect employees from excessive indoor heat, particularly in warehouses.

The U.S. Department of Labor said Monday that a company with facilities in Beaumont was fined $399,349 after employees and first responders were exposed to a toxic gas in an April 2023 incident.

In triple-digit temperatures, drinking water frequently and resting in the shade are minimum safety measures for avoiding injuries and deaths. But they are not applied to every job site.

Texas Children’s Hospital is in the hot seat and may face a hefty penalty after the U.S. Department of Labor said it failed to protect employees from patients.

The Massachusetts pharmaceutical plant where a powerful blast killed a worker is in the cleanup phase.

Amazon’s total injury rate for warehouse workers took a dip last year, but injuries were still worse than they were in 2020, according to an analysis released Wednesday by a coalition of labor unions.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a call to action for Texas employers to protect workers during freezing temperatures, according to a release.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched an investigation into Fiesta Mart LLC after two butchers suffered from amputation injuries due to unguarded machinery, according to a release.

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday its investigation into the deadly collapse of an Amazon warehouse has “raised concerns about the potential risk to employees” during weather emergencies.

The Biden administration has officially withdrawn a rule that would have required workers at big companies to get vaccinated or face regular COVID testing requirements.

The White House is pushing ahead with efforts to prod people to get COVID-19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration’s sweeping vaccinate-or-test plan for large employers.

The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job.

Starbucks says its U.S. workers must be fully vaccinated by Feb. 9 or face a weekly COVID testing requirement.

The Biden administration is asking a federal court to let it move ahead with a workplace rule that would require employees at larger companies to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face weekly testing.

A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers.

To enforce President Joe Biden’s forthcoming COVID-19 mandate, the U.S. Labor Department is going to need a lot of help.

The Biden administration is framing its vaccine mandate for private employers in life-and-death terms in a legal filing that sought to get the requirement back on track after it was halted by a federal court.

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers.

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The attorneys general of 27 states have filed federal lawsuits challenging a vaccine mandate for employers issued by the Biden administration.

The attorneys general of 27 states have filed federal lawsuits challenging a vaccine mandate for employers issued by the Biden administration.

Time is winding down for companies with 100 or more employees to get their workers fully vaccinated or tested weekly, as part of a new federal mandate.

Officials say meatpacker JBS Foods Inc. faces about $59,000 in fines following the death of a worker who fell into a vat of chemicals used to process animal hides at one of the company’s meat processing facilities in northern Colorado.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t make many headlines.

“But I continued working.”For decades, health care workers have faced rampant violence in the workplace. Well over half of Texas' nurses reported being subject to workplace violence in their career, according to a 2016 state study. State lawmakers have for years heard examples of the violence nurses face. Some health care workers who experience violence may not want to blame or shame violent patients who are ill or affected by medication. Health care workers and experts have said hospitals can add more security guards or metal detectors and instill a culture of violence prevention to help deter workplace violence.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Four plant workers were killed by the virus during the spring and at least 1,294 workers were sickened. Smithfield Foods, which is based in Virginia, said it planned to contest the citation and $13,494 fine. But large outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the nation soon followed. After President Donald Trump signed an executive order in Apri l deeming meatpacking plants as critical infrastructure, they mostly stayed open.