Archive for February, 2012

Worthington Cylinders Wisconsin, LLC is voluntarily recalling 29,026,000 Map Pro, Propylene and MAPP Gas Cylinders in the United States and 1,371,100 in Canada.
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Six public informational meetings to explain the long-range transportation plan will begin March 6 in Sioux City. While Iowa DOT says Iowa is "at a major crossroads concerning transportation investments," most comments fielded last year by a Citizen Ad...
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The violation was cited after an investigation prompted by a complaint determined that employees working on mold machines and exposed to hot temperatures that could result in burns were provided with ineffective personal protective equipment.
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A freight company, its managing director, and a contractor pleaded guilty in connection with a remodeling job that may exposed at least 20 people to asbestos fibers.
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Methylene chloride vapor has been recognized as potentially fatal to furniture strippers and factory workers but has not been reported previously as a cause of death among bathtub refinishers.
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The European Commission has recently published a White Paper on adequate, safe and sustainable pensions. It puts forward a range of initiatives to reach a better balance between time in work and time in retirement.
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Federal prosecutors have charged Gary May, a former senior mine supervisor with the Upper Big Branch (UBB) Coal Mine in West Virginia, with felony conspiracy. According to the Department of Justice, May’s unlawful and willful actions at UBB, where an...
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BP Wind Energy now operates four wind farms in Texas and has more than $1 billion invested in them.
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Comments are being accepted for two more weeks, until March 12.
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Opting for a recommendation rather than a rule, in part because the costs and benefits cannot be accurately estimated, the agency said manual text entry, reading more than 30 characters, and automatically scrolling text are per se unsafe.
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