Injuries

This article originally appeared on Schools.com By Kenneth Corbin Last year, the U.S. workplace got a little safer for some: the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) tallied 3.1 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2010 among private sector firms, down from 3.3 million reported incidents the ...

An Australian brake-pad manufacturer has been fined more than $125,000 following a March 2008 incident in which a worker was killed while cleaning an industrial-size blender. An investigation found the company, FIP Brakes International in suburban Sydney, had a "significant number of safety failings" that led ...