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Updated: October 6, 2023 | 4:49 pm

OSHA investigators say R.M. Palmer Company failed to protect workers before gas explosion

Federal investigators determined that a chocolate factory in West Reading failed to evacuate workers after some reported smelling gas.

By Gabriela Martínez/WITF

OSHA finds workplace violations at a Mechanicsburg work site

The agency also released information about 21 recent workplace fatalities in southcentral Pennsylvania.
By Gabriela Martínez/WITF

Biden’s vaccine-or-test rule for 84 million workers is back after court lifts stay

A Biden administration rule that requires workers at companies with 100 or more employees to be vaccinated against Covid or undergo weekly testing is back on.

By NPR

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How a small government agency will enforce the vaccine mandate for 80 million workers

OSHA works to figure out how to enforce the mandate

By NPR

The Biden administration is adding worker protections to address extreme heat

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it will push to protect workers against rising temperatures, including a federal rule to safeguard workers from heat-related illnesses.

By NPR

Heat is killing workers in the U.S. — and there are no federal rules to protect them

At least 384 workers died from environmental heat exposure in the U.S. in the last decade, according to an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations.

By NPR

Meatpacking companies, OSHA face investigation over coronavirus in plants

Clyburn said that despite thousands of confirmed infections at meatpacking plants across the country, OSHA under the Trump administration issued only eight citations and less than $80,000 in penalties for coronavirus-related violations.
By NPR


Trump team killed rule designed to protect health workers from pandemic like COVID-19

Making a new infectious disease regulation, affecting much of the American healthcare system, is time-consuming and contentious.

By NPR

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