A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh that left two workers dead says it found safety shortcomings that “exposed” employees to the explosion.

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

The incident happened in September 2024 and the U.S. Department of Labor announced the citation on Friday.

Federal job safety officials are beginning their investigation into the collapse of a crane that killed a worker.

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.

Officials say a worker pulled from a shaft at a construction site in Orange County has died.

A trainer at SeaWorld Orlando was severely injured last year when one of the park’s killer whale’s bit her arm, breaking several bones.

A trainer at SeaWorld Orlando was severely injured last year when one of the park’s killer whales bit her arm, breaking several bones.

The fireworks company that owned a warehouse in Orange County that caught fire and ignited numerous fireworks, killing four people and injuring another, has been fined over $100,000.

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.

Federal workplace safety authorities have fined a central Pennsylvania confectionary factory more than $14,500 following an accident last year in which two workers fell into a vat of chocolate.

Federal regulators said Dollar General is facing another $1.68 million in fines after government safety inspectors found violations at four of the chain’s stores in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

An investigation into a shoplifting-related worker death at a Family Dollar store in Orlando led OSHA to present more than $300,000 in fines for violations, according to the agency.

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating reports of potential workplace hazards at Amazon warehouses in New York City, Chicago and Orlando, officials said Monday.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it initiated an investigation into an incident where a construction worker fell to his death from an Orlando apartment building roof.

With temperatures reaching triple digits in several parts of the Southeast U.S., the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is asking employers to protect workers from the dangers that come with such hot conditions.

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.

Saying it is too early to determine whether pursuing the change would be “prudent,” Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has told legislative leaders that it could take about nine years to move away from workplace regulation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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.

For big companies across the country, it's now up to them to decide whether to require employees to get vaccinated.

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.

Biden administration attorneys late Friday urged a federal appeals court to reject a request by Florida, Georgia and Alabama to put on hold a rule that would require tens of millions of workers nationwide to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be regularly tested and wear masks.

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.

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

Gov. Ron DeSantis formally announced Thursday Florida will present a legal challenge to the Biden Administration's latest executive order mandating companies with more than 100 employees require vaccinations for their workers.

Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine.

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.

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.

A Cirque du Soleil La Nouba performer at Disney Springs was injured on Oct. 20 after falling during an aerial rehearsal, according to Reedy Creek Fire Department. The call for service at Cirque Du Soleil came in at 10:15 p.m. on Oct. 20. "Safety is our number one priority at Cirque du Soleil. The performer’s condition is unknown and is still receiving medical care, according to Cirque du Soleil. In June 2013, a Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil performer died after a fall from 94 feet in front of an audience during a performance of the show "Ka," the Wall Street Journal reported.

ORLANDO, Fla. – SeaWorld Orlando's 'Dine with Shamu' program has reopened for the first time since Dawn Brancheau's death on Tuesday-- the same day the park appealed citations in the trainer's death. In 2010, OSHA fined SeaWorld for employee safety violations involving the "water work" with whales during the shows and prohibited trainers from swimming with killer whales. Welsch kept a full $5,000 in fines for a staircase without rails but reduced the water work fine to $7,000-totaling $12,00 in fines. SeaWorld argues there is no difference between caring for the whales during a show and after the audiences have left. SeaWorld officials said they hope OSHA safety inspectors will allow trainers and whales to swim together again with the new rising floor.