Proximity detection refers to a technology that can be installed on mining machinery to detect the presence of personnel or other machinery within a certain distance.
Experts will clear up myths surrounding CSA –- the federal motor carrier safety system on which CVSA's upcoming annual conference is focused -– and help attendees cope with sleep apnea, gas detection challenges, slips and falls, and crane mishaps.
Coal mines were issued 232 citations and 24 orders, while metal/nonmetal operations were issued 108 citations and 11 orders.
OSHA's Baton Rouge Area Office began its inspection March 10 following a report that an employee was fatally injured when a land-based portable rig, which was mounted on a barge, tipped over and crushed the employee to death.
Its designers say the robot can enter first and crawl over debris to assess the dangers and give responders information about them before they go into a mine following an accident.
The A10.7 standard is applicable to the storage, handling, and use of commercial explosives and blasting agents in the construction industry.
Three of the fatality reports posted on the new page concern the deaths of crane riggers. One of the live presentations in the OH&S Aug. 31 virtual event will discuss common errors that lead to such accidents.
As OSHA inspectors were traveling to an inspection near Auburn they passed an open excavation where workers were not being protected from cave-ins. The OSHA officials stopped and opened an inspection at the NPL Construction site, and requested that the workers be removed from the trench.
"Even in a retail outlet, employees can be exposed to deadly or disabling hazards if the proper safeguards and training are absent, as they were here," said Edward Jerome, OSHA's area director in Albany.
OSHA's Houston South Area Office initiated a safety and health inspection Feb. 9 at the company's facility after receiving a report that a worker had been found, unresponsive, inside a tank trailer that was being prepared to be washed.
Fiscal year 2011 funding will target the development and implementation of training and training materials for mine emergency preparedness as well as mine emergency prevention in underground mines.
We need to revise fire service training to include awareness training on many different topics, just like this one.
“The hazards of working in confined spaces are well-documented and this is a classic example of the kind of injury that occurs when employers fail to adequately protect their employees,” said Cal/OSHA Chief Ellen Widess.
During an inspection opened on March 31, OSHA found Blue Heron employees working in an unprotected excavation greater than 5 feet in depth.
OSHA cited Don Wartko Construction Inc. with five willful safety violations for failing to protect workers from cave-ins during trenching operations at three separate worksites in Cleveland.
The company was cited for one willful, one repeat, 20 serious, and one-other-than serious violation, following a combined safety and health inspection at the company's facility.
"Mine operators cannot be permitted to violate mine safety laws and simply refuse to pay penalties assessed for those violations," said Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health.
Water is not the only danger of flooding. The mold that may occur after water has receded can be far more hazardous to the homeowner and family.
The two are confined spaces in construction -- to be issued in November 2011 -- and protective equipment for electrical power generating, distribution and transmission workers -- coming in September.
Britain's Health and Safety Executive prosecuted two companies and secured guilty pleas July 4 in connection with the deaths in May 2009.