February 2020 OSHA News

OSHA News for February 2020

Hello,

February was all work. Legal work and training were much of the month. I have trained 751 people in two months this year.  I forget how long a 10 hour deposition can be.

The Coronavirus or Covid-19 has one US death and 60 infected. I hope to teach a session at Hillside or Dekalb on March 27.

This month presentation is on GHS. I have not posted one in a  long time.

I hope to see some you at CSC annual conference. Next week!

John

OSHA News.

1)  Framing Contractor gets 30 days in jail for violating OSHA rules.

https://www.naplesnews.com/story/money/business/local/2020/02/04/osha-violation-leads-former-naples-contractor-prison-sentence-death-employee-who-fell-off-roof/4653341002/?fbclid=IwAR2StjZSeO7OvJ2SbpNwTRm9wpsKem77buRWgC8h78_GkWESgv_u-67IAwI

2)  Silica Emphasis program coming.

https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/safety/silica-worker-federal-exposure-inspection-program-takes-effect?fbclid=IwAR2oX9imzVxZCCD0Pq3khGW6Vwvyrdxa0HLc_9tY_HDtU1FkXY30myxzQX4

3) OSHA boss Sweatt hopes for a second term.

https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/safety/osha-boss-sweatt-hopes-to-stay-for-second-trump-term?fbclid=IwAR2MWEOW0JD85GqEK_eLcb5dr-wZJdxfvD87N-vTq3yO8gKr_R_3BhmTDwk

4) Contractor pleads guilty to mail fraud for fake osha training.

https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/safety/osha-boss-sweatt-hopes-to-stay-for-second-trump-term?fbclid=IwAR2MWEOW0JD85GqEK_eLcb5dr-wZJdxfvD87N-vTq3yO8gKr_R_3BhmTDwk

5) OHIO BWC offering trench grants of $2 million.

 https://www.rfdtv.com/story/41700455/illinois-farm-worker-dies-in-grain-bin-accident?fbclid=IwAR3sYwR2gUXkQPLoIYfxR7SLnmCGYX0167ZmZDL6R5CUvkekWFKIfXMQ58k

Other Major News Stories.

1) The Annual Construction Safety Conference in March 2-3, 2020< There several interesting topics including, Suspension Trauma, Task Based PPE, Underground Utilities, VR and AI for Safety training, Aerial Lift Operator qualifications, 2021 NFPA 70E, and Cyber Liability.  I will speak on “What Doesn’t Kill You, Hurts. Preventing the Top 10 Most Common Construction Hospitalizations”

https://chicagoconstructionexpo.com/

2) Something is rotten with the incident rate for oil and gas.

Incident rate is 0.8. Well below manufacturing and other sectors. Yet the worker die 5x more that average per article below.

So I spoke with two large companies about the disparity. Both said the industry lies on injuries. One said many pay the injured worker to stay at home avoid having a worker compensation claim. They pay the medical out of pocket. Another said they encourage employees not report by giving bonuses for not getting hurt.

https://www.texastribune.org/…/death-oilfields-fossil-fuel…/

3) Three Dead in oil blowout in TX.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/3rd-worker-dies-of-injuries-from-central-texas-oil-well-blowout?fbclid=IwAR2Vx5mKqZxL11XQ9tGC5gC2O0hXp6yP8ZY9NcLzHjbdBHClRc1npRefmPw

4) An Illinois farm worker has died in a grain bin accident after being buried in corn.

David Lowis, 61, was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to the county coroner, first responders had to cut into the grain bin to get Lowis out. An autopsy revealed he died from suffocation.

https://www.rfdtv.com/story/41700455/illinois-farm-worker-dies-in-grain-bin-accident?fbclid=IwAR3sYwR2gUXkQPLoIYfxR7SLnmCGYX0167ZmZDL6R5CUvkekWFKIfXMQ58k

5)  1 dead in nursing home in Lake County IL from Legionella.

https://patch.com/illinois/vernonhills/1-death-among-3-legionnaires-cases-vernon-hills-senior-home?fbclid=IwAR1tjkyzMg6h8zaHD7GZa8Xg3E7MI1Jxy0AltQ4roPssrCWrSlox7ahOOZM

6) Double fatality in Cleveland in tanker confined space.

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/02/second-employee-of-cleveland-trucking-company-dies-after-trying-to-rescue-collapsed-co-worker.html?utm_campaign=clevelanddotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Rv7otZFUG1NwbwjkpzZRYHDDrdqW7rPpg5PlNohT_OKL3yijUOPzf00M

7)  Less OSHA inspections in 2020.

https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/safety/federal-safety-inspections-may-decline-in-2020-osha-warns?fbclid=IwAR3z48M5S6ZoXSna2Wza29gNa9s6X5jH1qPYGEspig7Wpf-McinFKHV0G-o

8) FL roofer ignores $2.2 million in OSHA fines.

https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/safety/federal-safety-inspections-may-decline-in-2020-osha-warns?fbclid=IwAR3z48M5S6ZoXSna2Wza29gNa9s6X5jH1qPYGEspig7Wpf-McinFKHV0G-o

9) A pair of OSHA Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health workgroups are schedule to host public teleconferences March 5.

According to a notice published in the Feb. 25 Federal Register, the Education, Training and Outreach workgroup’s meeting on fall prevention and trench safety is set for 10 a.m. Eastern. The Emerging and Current Issues workgroup’s meeting on opioids and suicides in construction is slated for 1 p.m. Eastern.

Comments and requests to speak must be submitted by Feb. 28.

ACCSH advises the Department of Labor and OSHA on upcoming standards affecting the construction industry and “the administration of safety and health provisions” in the Construction Safety Act. Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health workgroups are scheduled to host public teleconferences March 5.

10) What standards require annual training?

https://work.chron.com/osha-standards-require-annual-training-17529.html?fbclid=IwAR0BC528Nk4dyQm170ry0OvYVsw7aUtZ6HEW97dBPfoFsRmCzi3Atxk8S9Y

Safety Training at Non-Profits

NIU Machine guarding Free                                                                         March 5, March 16

OSHA 500 CSC                                                                                                   Mar 9-12

OSHA 7115 CSC Lockout with new book                                                 Mar 13

OSHA 511 Rockford                                                                                         Mar 23-26

Panflu                                                                                                                   Mar 27

NIU is Northern Illinois University OSHA Education Center http://www.nsec.niu.edu

FREE machine Guarding https://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/course-schedules/free-courses/free-machinery-courses/index.shtml

CSC is the Construction Safety Council in Hillside. Www.Buildsafe.org

TRMA is Three Rivers Manufacturers Association   www.trma.org

NSC is National Safety Council http://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/

I usually teach only part of the 30 hour and the 500 series. I have been teaching many 10/30 hour class for private companies.  I have taught 751 people this year. I teach evenings, weekends, early mornings too. I teach in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana.   

All presentations are put on slideshare.net for free downloading. I put this presentation at this link. https://www.slideshare.net/JohnNewquist/ghs-2020-one-hour

I use your feedback to make changes to make corrections.

OSHA Citations February – next month

March 2020 OSHA News

OSHA News for March 2020

Hello,

One month changes everything. I hope you are surviving the COVID19 virus. I started tracking it since Feb 28. At this moment, the general population is short of respirators. Testing is high and the USA leads with the most infected in the world.

Training in class is shut down for the most part.

I did a webinar using the ppt sent out two weeks ago. I was glad to have 270 people. There were 50 questions and respirators and recordkeeping were the hot topics.

This month ppt is multiemployer. Many cases are winning against the general contractors and the active construction manager.  Also, the industrial employer can lose cases if they hire temps and they get hurt.

Let’s hope the testing gets the infectious isolated and treatment early. Maybe then we can get the deaths under control.

John

OSHA News.

1) Amanda “Mandy” Edens is the new deputy assistant, filling the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s most senior career-service post, an agency official confirmed Thursday.

2) A supervisor who oversaw an asbestos-removal project pleaded guilty in federal court to lying to OSHA officials during an inspection.

Corey Allen Barnett’s guilty plea potentially exposes him to a prison term of up to five years and a $250,000 fine,

https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/safety/construction-supervisor-pleads-guilty-lied-to-osha?fbclid=IwAR3yB2f5NEGEM6c8H9No9w1cQMwl1FFlUvDI2SagNiI9VgsxdlDqgiIDQ_Q

3) IL company cited willful lockout and machine guarding for a serious injury.

https://foxillinois.com/news/local/arcola-company-cited-for-osha-violation-after-employee-injury?fbclid=IwAR3zPyYt7I8p21WT4i0Fx6weGu38nIVLQgxkuTFbnJJDak3aas0CCoN8C9k

4) D.C. Circuit Holds Employer That Failed to Implement Its Own Safety Program Violated the General Duty Clause

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently issued a decision that should be of concern to every employer and safety professional. The case involved an employer that had ambitious but unimplemented requirements in its written safety procedures—a lack of implementation that in large part caused the employer to be found guilty of a violation of the General Duty Clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. That seems to be the lesson of the D.C. Circuit’s decision in BHC Northwest Psychiatric Hospital, LLC v. Secretary of Labor, No. 19 1089 (March 3, 2020).

https://ogletree.com/insights/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-d-c-circuit-holds-employer-that-failed-to-implement-its-own-safety-program-violated-the-general-duty-clause/

5) Former OSHA compliance officer sentenced for filing false inspection reports.

https://www.thestate.com/news/business/national-business/article240833801.html?fbclid=IwAR0q50PxMo9ulYmc-spWOqu9AFuqJDjaO78li8S92OBIKAPMJ3J2LxLTR

Other Major News Stories.

1) COVID-19 deaths

Friday March 20, 2020 – 195 deaths, 13,676 infected

Friday March 13, 2020 - 40 deaths, 1,663 infected

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 12 deaths, 233 infected

Friday Feb 28, 2020 - 0 deaths, 55 cases

2) Two Ford works die from coronavirus.

https://www.pressandguide.com/news/coronavirus/two-dearborn-ford-workers-die-from-covid/article_e6ee37c0-71ca-11ea-8d12-c37d21a34ef1.html?fbclid=IwAR00nmmkfugrm3umzV27APWDM8Wh33yYVWQENJOV4bH58OxUFXjtl5mPJPk

3) USMWF would like to invite you all to join us on April 28, 2020 at 7pm cst. in the comfort of your home to honor, remember and recognize our fallen workers by going to https://www.facebook.com/USMWF as we will be hosting on Facebook LIVE, USMWF's First National Workers' Memorial Day Ceremony

4)  Batwoman Assistant Paralyzed.

https://deadline.com/2020/03/batwoman-production-assistant-paralyzed-on-set-accident-amanda-smith-warner-bros-tv-invesigation-1202884231/?fbclid=IwAR2sEH1MORz7KyzJ1f2nJ9LbYDpIIQs2168IBMqK7QpBFEgyi9fC4jXUWVQ

5) OSHA field offices have the discretion to not cite an employer for violations of the annual fit testing requirement as long as employers:

Make a good faith effort to comply with the respiratory protection standard;

Use only NIOSH-certified respirators;

Implement strategies recommended by OSHA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for optimizing and prioritizing N95 respirators;

Perform initial fit tests for each healthcare employee with the same model, style, and size respirator that the employee will be required to wear for protection from coronavirus;

Tell employees that the employer is temporarily suspending the annual fit testing of N95 respirators to preserve the supply for use in situations where they are required to be worn;

Explain to employees the importance of conducting a fit check after putting on the respirator to make sure they are getting an adequate seal;

Conduct a fit test if they observe visual changes in an employee’s physical condition that could affect respirator fit; and

Remind employees to notify management if the integrity or fit of their N95 respirator is compromised.

https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/national/03142020?fbclid=IwAR3eLQz2uAP6R6u7iKXff1f87cLs2otD0M452ksQLiav__cCazoBGh9ii_E

6) What gruesome death in TX. A man died after falling into a concrete pulverizer in Rosenberg early Thursday morning, police say.

The man was working to repair a slipped belt on a machine that pulverizes concrete at Williams Brothers construction along U.S. 59 near Daily Road, according to Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office Major Chad Norvell. At some point during the fix, he slipped and fell in, authorities said.

https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/fortbend/news/article/Worker-killed-in-Rosenberg-after-falling-in-15107299.php?fbclid=IwAR0E7xfFDBNhj-khyaAPUHrGWmytQpqX_mtV6viGhpTJRSbBFjHVNpgLDd8\

Safety Training at Non-Profits

None probable in April.

NIU is Northern Illinois University OSHA Education Center http://www.nsec.niu.edu

FREE machine Guarding https://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/course-schedules/free-courses/free-machinery-courses/index.shtml

CSC is the Construction Safety Council in Hillside. Www.Buildsafe.org

TRMA is Three Rivers Manufacturers Association   www.trma.org

NSC is National Safety Council http://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/

I usually teach only part of the 30 hour and the 500 series. I have been teaching many 10/30 hour class for private companies.  I have taught 1760 people this year. I teach evenings, weekends, early mornings too. I teach in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana.   

All presentations are put on slideshare.net for free downloading. I put this presentation at this link. https://www.slideshare.net/JohnNewquist/covid19-webinar-final

I use your feedback to make changes to make corrections.

OSHA Citations February – March

VI $90,217 Forkift fatality

FL $114,294 Fall Protection Roofer.

WI  $477.089 Exits Dollar Tree.

AL $106,029 Fall Protection Dollar Tree.

NJ $77,184 Hand injury Food Manufacturer

MA $523,745 Exits Dollar Tree

PA  $296,861 Exits Dollar Tree.

February

NE $228,592 Grain bin death

MO $339,702 19 hazards cited. Charcoal Manufacturer

DE $371,276 Hazards cited at tank car cleaner.

AL $240,880 Falls and ladders in Residential

GA $148,867 Lockout Mulch manufacturer

LA $221,257  Falls and forklift Cookie mfr.

GA $128,004 Fatality, conveyors and falls. Farm.

PA $280,874 Hex Chrome. Hydraulic shop

April 2020 OSHA News

OSHA News for April 2020

Hello,

April seemed endless with the lockdown in place. I tracked 57000 deaths from COVID19 in two months. Hopefully treatment is better and antibody testing proves reliable.

I did nine live streaming classes this month. I got to use MS teams, Adobe Connect, Zoom and Blue Jeans. The challenge is being able to use hands on via the internet.

This month’s powerpoint is hand safety. I see many hand injuries at manufacturers. I think that proper placement of hands needs to be taught and watched for workers. Impact resistance gloves are showing positive results at the places that I am at.

Let’s hope the virus deaths slow down in May. Stay safe and cover the face.

John

OSHA News.

1) Small Farms Exempt from OSHA

https://www.fairwarning.org/2020/04/small-farms-immune-to-safety-investigations/?fbclid=IwAR22fXbm3sm3QPKc6k01L7PdcF2X8xHqQi6_RLa9dcHP5a3-8UW8RDi36Hg

2) MN OSHA guidance for COVID19 for meatpacking plants.

https://www.dli.mn.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/COVID_19_meatpacking_guidance.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1wTr6vEt6_dlRAZz5GrqZDf7no3HP_5RBIvHrO0vaTFbNA4cxjGuq5Edw

3)  OSHA criticized during Covid19

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/16/coronavirus-osha-covid-occupational-safety-health/2986364001/?fbclid=IwAR03Pr5-lVIb5e5DiCbRFtTkiDmmoTah9GsHPEE578v2hUTTgTmCKxkO15o

4) OSHA swamped with COVID19 complaints.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/osha-coronavirus-complaints/?fbclid=IwAR3TEPWMNYiRwHM78myo8oiVrJ-JijIDCyM89JseNG1VDTIBz6LPBQcTtl0

5) OSHA Interim Enforcement of COVID19

https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-04-13/interim-enforcement-response-plan-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR2NOUBDtNAFaXgiaLOukC7g6UAayPt4_4nCJK_J0j1-YW4i9yciwQWcvmA

6) OSHA COVID19 recording

https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-04-10/enforcement-guidance-recording-cases-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR2AmHUT2U2SNHXEgAAgfjz0gwVFuWme0mZC1yH1RoSPq8R3znWR4SdocQQ

Other Major News Stories.

1)  Covid19 antibody test at Quest for $129

https://questdirect.questdiagnostics.com/products/covid-19-immune-response/b580e541-78a5-48a6-b17b-7bad949dcb57?fbclid=IwAR09uKm_cv2LfFmQkzai4chrnhk_IYly8TxBaFmLt_37-A07h2W--aLcB2w

2) Three Tyson workers death at one plant from COVIS19

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4-georgia-poultry-workers-dead-coronavirus-company-says-n1186326?fbclid=IwAR2iR2Dv3VaiJroiqNz5C_vGC0eYvsEVx16aqgYDpMcgKNMSiwwAh78JFkg

3)  I made a series of video testing homemade mask. 1900 Furnace filters and acrylic felt passed every time if double layered.

Will I Cough? Ep. 13. Acrylic felt.

Acrylic felt is cheap and flexible. Alex trying a double layer and making a tight seal with his hands. Bitrex was used.

https://youtu.be/Y7lAtW2HDgc

4)

1) COVID-19 deaths

Friday April 24, 2020 – 43,698 deaths, 869,172 infected

Friday April 17, 2020 – 29,379 deaths, 671, 425 infected

Friday April 10, 2020 – 16260 deaths, 466,299 infected

Friday April 3, 2020 – 5696 deaths, 245,573 infected

Friday March 27, 2020 – 1252 deaths, 85,996 infected

Friday March 20, 2020 – 195 deaths, 13,676 infected

Friday March 13, 2020 - 40 deaths, 1,663 infected

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 12 deaths, 233 infected

Friday Feb 28, 2020 - 0 deaths, 55 cases

OSHA Citations

GA $183,127 Fatal lacquer thinner resurfacing a bathtub.

FL $303,611 Cavein hazards. Trenching contractor.

AL $170,020 Highway construction fatality

MO $415,204 Fatal Storage tank Fall

IL $235,962. University and 2 contractors for Confined space issues in steam vault.

LA $315,536 Hard Rock Casino collapse

NJ $151,329 Amputation at packaging company

FL $53,976 I-4 aerial lift fatality.

Safety Training at Non-Profits

Machine Guarding Free Live Streaming                  May 11, 13, 22, 26, 28

Lockout                CSC                                                        May 20

OSHA 30              CSC                                                        May 12, 14, 19, 21

NIU is Northern Illinois University OSHA Education Center http://www.nsec.niu.edu

FREE machine Guarding https://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/course-schedules/free-courses/free-machinery-courses/index.shtml

CSC is the Construction Safety Council in Hillside. Www.Buildsafe.org

TRMA is Three Rivers Manufacturers Association   www.trma.org

NSC is National Safety Council http://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/

I usually teach only part of the 30 hour and the 500 series. I have been teaching many 10/30 hour class for private companies.  I have taught 1760 people this year. I teach evenings, weekends, early mornings too. I teach in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana.   

All presentations are put on slideshare.net for free downloading. I put this presentation at this link. https://www.slideshare.net/JohnNewquist/hand-safety-2020-232970324

I use your feedback to make changes to make corrections.

June 2020 OSHA NEws

OSHA News for June 2020

Hello,

We are seeing some hot days. I put some of the Cal-OSHA heat laws in OSHA section. I hope you are drinking water and replacing lost electrolytes.

June was the busiest month for training in 2020. I did several live streaming classes and a few onsite classes. I can teach all day in a face mask with students social distancing.  I have some days open in July so can do training and audits.

NIU and the Construction Safety Council offer  free Harwood classes for four hours. I teach machine guarding for NIU. I and Paul Satti can teach trenching for CSC. It can be live streamed and these have been popular.  

This month PowerPoint is the caught in hazard for construction. I added recent injury information in the presentation.

Stay cool and wear a mask inside. I will see you in August.

John

OSHA News.

1) Heat Indexes are over 100F in many parts of the country. New workers must given time to adapt to the heat.
Cal-OSHA has laws for heat that many should adopt.

High-heat procedures. The employer shall implement high-heat procedures when the temperature equals or exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit. These procedures shall include the following to the extent practicable:
(1) Ensuring that effective communication by voice, observation, or electronic means is maintained so that employees at the work site can contact a supervisor when necessary. An electronic device, such as a cell phone or text messaging device, may be used for this purpose only if reception in the area is reliable.
(2) Observing employees for alertness and signs or symptoms of heat illness. The employer shall ensure effective employee observation/monitoring by implementing one or more of the following:
(A) Supervisor or designee observation of 20 or fewer employees, or
(B) Mandatory buddy system, or
(C) Regular communication with sole employee such as by radio or cellular phone, or
(D) Other effective means of observation.
(3) Designating one or more employees on each worksite as authorized to call for emergency medical services, and allowing other employees to call for emergency services when no designated employee is available.
(4) Reminding employees throughout the work shift to drink plenty of water.
(5) Pre-shift meetings before the commencement of work to review the high heat procedures, encourage employees to drink plenty of water, and remind employees of their right to take a cool-down rest when necessary.

2) Congrats to Jim Martineck for becoming the Chicago South Area Director. Jim has worked for OSHA over 25 years and will do a good job.

3) Congrats to Larken Akins  for her promotion to National Safety and Health Director for OSHA.

 4) Good to great: I went back for the audit at a large manufacturer. They improved quite a bit from the bad years. They had most OSHA programs in place in 2018. The focus on ergo was not there. They identified many tasks requiring forklift or crane to lift products. Some equipment is team lift. Monthly audits were not done. Now managers find 30 hazards a month. The training was increased and focused on hazards and prevention. Near miss tracking is good and most are now minor forklift close calls. So retraining will be done.

5)  Eula Bingham, a toxicologist who energized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as its director and set stringent standards to protect workers from hazardous materials, died on June 13 in Cincinnati. She was 90

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/eula-bingham-champion-of-worker-safety-dies-at-90.html

6) One Press Release on OSHA Violations Yields Compliance Equal to 210 Inspections

https://sanford.duke.edu/articles/one-press-release-osha-violations-yields-compliance-equal-210-inspections?fbclid=IwAR37vo7Hh2kz9MrX1afumUcxKodzi4FuEICiD03KyS9jRzvbM88JiJImdeY

7) Lockout and a Master key.
What I have found is that the regulation clearly states that the employer of the authorized employee may remove a lockout device as long as a documented procedure is followed. This procedure, at a minimum, must include: (1) verification by the employer that the [authorized] employee [who applied the device] is not on site; (2) [all] reasonable efforts to contact the authorized employee to inform him or her that the lock has been removed; and (3) the employee is definitely informed of the removal of the lock upon his or her return to work.

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2000-02-28?fbclid=IwAR3jZQ7ONqewWofpRts_UwqY1wAR4Uucdk6G47DvhpGJCySJtQ-wi5vShDY

8) Grain firm Farmers Elevator Co. of Manteno received citations for two willful and three serious violations and a fine of $205,106 from the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a worker died at its Grant Park, IL elevator.

The worker was fatally injured at the site after falling into a grain bin. OSHA inspectors determined that the company permitted employees to enter a grain bin using a ladder with rungs spaced greater than 14” apart and without a body harness and lifeline. Farmers Elevator also neglected to provide rescue equipment and exposed workers to engulfment hazards while walking down grain

9) OSHA must release OSHA 300A data.
Employers’ injury and illness records filed with OSHA can be released to the public, a federal district court ruled.

The records, called Form 300A, are annual summaries of job-related injuries and illnesses at workplaces. If a higher court doesn’t overturn the Thursday decision, anyone could request from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration forms submitted yearly by about 300,000 employers.

10)  I have been involved with a few OSHA virtual inspections.  The compliance officer will ask for several documents and interview employees over the phone without coming in to a site or factory.

Other Major News Stories.

1)  COVID-19 deaths ( Idid not count the presumptive cases.

Friday July 3, 2020 – 117784 deaths,  2,724,640 infected

Friday June 26, 2020 - 113029 deaths, 2,422,312 infected

Friday June 19, 2020 - 110074 deaths, 2,191,200 infected

Friday June 12, 2020 - 105840 deaths, 2,023,690 infected

Friday June 5, 2020 – 100885 deaths, 1,872,660 infected

2)  371 Positive COVID-19 cases at Tyson Missouri plant.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/tyson-foods-371-positive-covid-19-tests-at-missouri-plant/63-ce124b73-e151-4586-b604-56eafa9ebeb0?fbclid=IwAR3igPqA_57ICRREBgQQwy2dM5nnk_B7y3q7YO-a1rX4EI2adj0mSDzNn30

3) 2 dead in IL at workplace shooting.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/possible-shooting-reported-at-bunn-o-matic-warehouse-in-springfield-report/2295966/?fbclid=IwAR0I3_7XbjNjFBakPhc1T8hYph118Ls2mKVxD-IYZY9e8In7JhpyjILPK1o

4) 16-year-old dies after falling from scaffolding at Nashville work site

 https://www.wsmv.com/news/davidson_county/16-year-old-dies-after-falling-from-scaffolding-at-nashville-work-site/article_fea3b676-b59d-11ea-a70a-03a0f8721fa0.html?utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1esuAIPP-frseTHArV_B8JgNz0_eKZlLMIK_a2m3Z671VlkBi5kQgSW98

5) Worker dies in fall at $4 billion stadium.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/construction-worker-dies-after-fall-at-inglewoods-sofi-stadium/?fbclid=IwAR1CZeIQWgFzI7lTBc_yiUGsYne3j1HCj4zDKHuf69FEiaLmX3DIa60JjTY

6) VT Health asks people to monitor for low blood oxygen.

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2020/06/03/vermont-health-department-starts-new-program-monitor-oxygen-levels-covid-19-at-home-pulse-oximeter/3124443001/?fbclid=IwAR2JNodoFjS9jlS6BhmVJmoqfdqF07YknyS0IKKcorOXkVHO_skzVI5rGtI

OSHA Citations

FL $126,169 Hotel fall fatal. Roofer

FL $199,711 Willful residential fall. Roofer.

NJ $1,997,125 Willful roof falls at five locations.

AL $138,118 Resident roof fall fatal.

NJ $259,760  Fail to Abate machine guarding and lockout. Packaging company.

FL $53,976  Trenching. Electrical distributor.

FL $51,952 Resident roof fall. Roofer.

MO $224,459.  Trench injury . General Contractor.

Safety Training at Non-Profits (Check Sites for Starting Dates)

Machine Guarding Free Live Streaming                  June 16, 21,  30

OSHA 511 Livestream                     NIU                        July 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 and 31, 2020

NIU is Northern Illinois University OSHA Education Center http://www.nsec.niu.edu

FREE machine Guarding https://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/course-schedules/free-courses/free-machinery-courses/index.shtml

CSC is the Construction Safety Council in Hillside. Www.Buildsafe.org

TRMA is Three Rivers Manufacturers Association   www.trma.org

NSC is National Safety Council http://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/

I usually teach only part of the 30 hour and the 500 series. I have been teaching many 10/30 hour class for private companies.  I have taught 1792 people this year. I teach evenings, weekends, early mornings too. I teach in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana.   

All presentations are put on slideshare.net for free downloading. I put this presentation at this link. https://www.slideshare.net/JohnNewquist/caught-in-or-between-hazards-2020

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