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More than 800 employees at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are expected to be cut.
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More than 800 employees at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are expected to be cut.
Wyoming and North Dakota had the highest rate of employee fatalities, according to an analysis from labor union AFL-CIO.
Researchers say the fast pace of work at the retailer's fulfillment centers takes a toll on employees' physical and mental health.
The investigation is being spearheaded by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, of which Sanders is chair.
A dairy in northern Colorado has been fined nearly $25,000 after the death of a worker whose truck slipped into a pit filled with liquid manure.
Sources say the man who died in an industrial accident at a Colorado dairy farm had been employed for six weeks and that the incident happened during his first day operating this particular work vehicle.
Authorities say two workers were electrocuted and a third injured Saturday when industrial equipment at a potash mine in eastern Utah touched a power line.
Authorities are investigating the death of a Loveland Ski Area employee.
A former railroad worker was awarded nearly $150,000 after OSHA found BNSF Railroad retaliated against him for reporting safety issues.
Federal safety inspectors were on their way to a construction site in Longmont on Monday after a worker fell to his death.
A Colorado nail salon owner says she's not surprised by a New York Times investigation finding workers at nail salons suffering from miscarriages, cancer and breathing problems after working around chemicals.
The Western Sugar Cooperative has paid a $7,000 fine in connection with a workplace accident that killed a woman at its beet-processing plant in Lovell early this year.
State officials say 65 people died from work-related injuries in 2013, 17 fewer than the previous year.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Colorado company for an incident over the summer where a worker was stuck in a trench for two hours.
A dazzling show of fire and color can make science come alive for young students, but it can also inflict serious and painful injuries, as flash fires in Nevada and Colorado showed this month.
A man was killed in an industrial accident at a metal shredding plant in Denver Friday morning.
Federal regulators have proposed nearly $67,000 in fines for a Colorado bioenergy company, after an employee's leg was caught by an auger system that unexpectedly began operating.
A construction worker who died after he was buried when a dirt wall suddenly collapsed on him has been identified.
OSHA has been called in to investigate a deadly construction accident in Lakewood.
It was an emotional scene in Denver federal court Friday as a grain elevator company pleaded guilty to charges involving the death of a teenage boy.
Federal regulators have proposed fining MillerCoors $63,500 over the release of more than 2,000 pounds of ammonia at a Colorado brewery.
A video production company has been fined $91,000 by OSHA after a 6-month investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a freelance videographer last summer.
