OSHA investigating death of construction worker in Palatine
OSHA is investigating the death of a worker at a construction site in northwest suburban Palatine, Illinois.
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OSHA is investigating the death of a worker at a construction site in northwest suburban Palatine, Illinois.
The problem at food manufacturing plants is so serious that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) created a special program to monitor the industry and work to reduce injuries and deaths.
CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini looked into repeated safety violations at one local pasta company. He'll have more on the CBS 2 News at 10.
Despite high injury rates, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) only inspected a little more than 4% of warehouses.
The collapse happened at an employee appreciation event at 73rd and Central.
The collapse happened at an employee appreciation event at 73rd and Central.
The company has more than $81,000 in unpaid OSHA penalties.
Federal safety inspectors fined an Oswego contractor a seventh time since 2015 for failing to protect employees from dangerous situations.
They were required to lift heavy items and hold awkward postures for long hours.
The family of a 27-year-old Elmwood Park man is grieving a day after the sewer repair worker was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on top of him in Buffalo Grove. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
Sewer repair worker Nikodem Zaremba died Monday evening after being pulled from the trench by first responders. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
Dollar Tree has 15 days to contest the fines.
The federal agency said Ferrara put workers at risk of amputation because of unsafe procedures when servicing equipment.
The Edwardsville community came together Friday to remember the six Amazon workers killed last weekend when a tornado touched down in Edwardsville.
A longtime nurse at Mercy Hospital has died of COVID-19, and now her death is under investigation.
Some Chicago nursing homes are getting fined by the federal government for not keeping their workers safe from COVID-19.
One employee lost a fingertip after coming into contact with an unguarded rotary valve in January, and another got caught in a machine in March.
"They don't care about me enough to protect me. And what's going to happen to my kids? I signed on to raise these kids and if I pass, what's going to happen to them?"
The incident took place just before 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The female employee was unconscious and trapped in a conveyor belt assembly. And maintenance staff had to pull the machine apart to get her out.
The Schaumburg facility specifically had been cited in 2017 after a worker lost three fingers to a circular saw machine. The company was issued six violations totaling more than $65,000 for hazardous energy and machine safety requirements.
The Labor Department says OSHA has cited Polo Masonry Builders for fall protection violations 13 times since 2010.
A mobile medical tractor manufacturer has been cited by federal workplace safety authorities more than three months after a worker was killed during his first day on the job in south suburban Monee.
Milos Grujic, who was employed as a delivery driver by Delta Currier Group in Alsip, was killed when a load from a powered industrial truck became unstable and struck him, according to OSHA and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
