A national meatpacking company with a facility in Green Bay has agreed to pay about $15,000 to settle allegations of unsafe practices during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic sickened and killed Wisconsin workers.

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Two Wisconsin manufacturers are among those suing to block the Biden administration from instituting COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private-sector workers.

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Officials at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration say they plan to push back the enforcement date of certain parts of a new rule requiring employers to electronically submit records of workplace injuries and illnesses.

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Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek recently published a special report regarding a new Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule that will increase employers' reporting requirements for workplace illnesses and injuries.

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Contractors and other businesses have a month to brace themselves for a federal rule that will jack OSHA penalty amounts up by 78 percent.

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On May 12, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration published a final rule requiring certain employers to electronically submit workplace injury and illness information to OSHA and requiring all employers to adopt procedures to encourage employee reporting.

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Wisconsin-based Ashley Furniture has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle alleged safety violations at four of its plants, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday.

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By Buck Sweeney and Micheal Hahn Axley Brynelson, LLP The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is in the final stages of drafting new rules regarding employee exposure to silica in the workplace. The proposed rule, which was first brought up ...

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For 25 years, the maximum penalty amounts for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act have remained frozen. A thaw is about to set in — and quick.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has affirmed a state Court of Appeals ruling finding that the relatives of employees who had died while working at a Eau Claire tire plant could file wrongful-death and survival claims.

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More than five years of litigation and a failed appeal have left Otis Elevator Co. with a $500 fine and a stained safety record stemming from a repairman’s injury at a Brookfield department store.

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An unfortunate side effect of the improved economy and rise in work has been a noted increase in fatality and injury rates in the construction industry, according to David Michaels with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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A Kenosha-based construction company might be on the hook for more than $1 million in settlement and legal fees stemming from a 2009 injury at the St. Catherine’s Medical Center construction site.

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An insurer is exempt from paying court costs and settlements connected to lawsuits filed after a contractor ruptured a gas line and caused an April 2008 explosion in Oconomowoc, the Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

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11-2427 KS Energy Services LLC v. Solis

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11-2958 Caterpillar Logistics Services Inc. v. Solis

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A North Fond du Lac man is suing Wisconsin Central Ltd., a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway, for injuries sustained from a fall off an allegedly defective loading dock.

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Workers burned in a 2009 explosion at the We Energies power plant in Oak Creek have received a $16 million settlement of a civil lawsuit, said their lawyer, Timothy Trecek.

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Employment OSHA; safety-related complaints Where an employee was terminated not for making a safety-related complaint, but for the disruptive manner in which he did so, his termination was not unlawful. “The ALJ’s factual determination that Schnidt fired Formella not because ...

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