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Bahia Bakari, the sole survivor of the Yemeni airline that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009, arrives at the courtroom, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 in Paris. A French court was expected to issue a verdict Wednesday Sept.22, 2022 in the trial of the Yemeni airline that operated a passenger plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009, killing 152 people.
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Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant , built during the Soviet era and one of the 10 biggest in the world, has been engulfed by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in recent weeks, fueling concerns of a nuclear catastrophe.
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People watch as the USS Texas is moved from the dock Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in La Porte, Texas. The vessel, which was commissioned in 1914 and served in both World War I and World War II, is being towed down the Houston Ship Channel to a dry dock in Galveston where it will undergo an extensive $35 million repair.
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OSHA Implements New Weighting System for Inspections
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Department of Labor Announces New NACOSH Members
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Pipefitter Suffers Fatal Burns
As he detached a nine-foot segment of this line, 190-proof ethanol spilled onto him, flowed through the grated flooring, and ignited on the floor due to nearby welding operations.
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OSHA to Focus on Manufacturing Amputations
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Mfg. Facing Half-Million Dollar Fines
Injuries included a 22-year-old employee who suffered the partial amputation of two fingers on his first day of work.
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OSHA Cites Smucker After Amputation
The employee was cleaning a valve body when it fell into the valve housing amputating the tip of his finger.
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OSHA Cites Sawmill Over Worker's Death
"Had Hankins Lumber met its responsibilities to protect its workers, Charlie Cummins would not have died needlessly," said Eugene Stewart, OSHA's area director in the Jackson Office.
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IL Worker Deaths Up 28 Percent
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Fines Proposed After Chemical Burns
Even after a worker suffered third-degree chemical burns from a fall into an acid-etching tank, the company still allowed employees to climb atop tanks without the proper fall protection equipment.
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U.S. Steel Cited Again for Asbestos
The company failed to inform employees of the presence of asbestos-containing material, despite directing workers to remove it.
August 9, 2016
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Maintenance Worker Fatally Crushed
"An employee who had been with the company 40 years lost his life because his employer failed to follow safety procedures to prevent machine parts from moving during maintenance," said a rep for OSHA.
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Auto Parts Company Cited Over Risk of Injury, Death
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