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Yenkin Majestic Paint Corporation pleaded guilty to negligent endangerment in federal court following a catastrophic April 8, 2021 explosion at its Columbus, Ohio manufacturing facility that killed one employee and injured nine others, according to an announcement from the U.S.
Under the Illinois Minimum Wage Law, every employer in the state owes adult workers at least $15.00 per hour, the final step of a six-year phased increase that reached its target on January 1, 2025.
Colorado's state minimum wage rose to $14.42 per hour on January 1, 2024, set automatically by a Consumer Price Index formula that removes the state legislature from annual rate decisions entirely.
New Jersey's minimum wage for most employees reached $15.13 per hour on January 1, 2024, completing a legislated climb from $8.85 in 2019 and triggering a permanent CPI-indexed adjustment formula. The rate doesn't come from annual legislative votes anymore.
Oregon divides its territory into three wage zones (Portland metro, standard counties, and non-urban counties) and ties each zone's minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index, recalculating every July 1. The 2024 adjustment raised all three tiers by 50 cents, landing at $15.95, $14.70, and $13.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a proposed rule in April 2026 to eliminate the November 2036 compliance deadline for ladder safety systems in response to a petition from oil, gas, and chemical industry trade groups claiming over $3 billion in retrofit costs, according to The
Nearly 69 percent of direct care nurses in Ohio experienced workplace violence, including verbal abuse, threats, or physical assault, in the past 12 months, according to the Registered Nurses Association of Ohio's 2026 Workplace Safety Report released today.
At least 30 workers died in workplace accidents across Greece, China, and the United States between July 9 and July 12, 2026, prompting regulators to impose safety penalties exceeding half a million dollars and order operational shutdowns at facilities in three countries, according to enforcement fi
Long-term night and rotating shift work causes reduced brain volume, increases cancer risk, and raises mortality rates among workers with cardiometabolic disease, according to an analysis published July 1 in the Los Angeles Times examining 26 years of occupational health evidence and frontline testi
Bengaluru police filed criminal negligence charges on June 29 against a contractor, site supervisors, and Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited officials following the electrocution death of Gurappa P., a 70-year-old contract worker, at a Namma Metro construction site on M.G. Road three days earl
Fall protection has topped OSHA's most-cited violations list for over a decade, and the same ten health and safety topics in the workplace appear in the agency's enforcement data year after year, accounting for the bulk of preventable worker injuries and deaths across American industries.
The United Kingdom has no legal maximum workplace temperature despite forecasts predicting heat could reach 38C this week, forcing workers to rely on general health and safety protections as the UK Health Security Agency warns of significant impacts across health services and a rise in deaths among
