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BEST FRIENDS ND Effective Recognition
"Geigle's 15 Steps to Effective Recognition" Over the years of training occupational safety and health for Oregon OSHA I've come up with what I believe to be 15 very useful and applicable "secrets" o...
Posted on 10/16/12 at 9:08 AM
RURAL REFLECTIONS Five Acts of Farm Safety
Act I Excluding safety Farm life has always involved lots of hard work. Although most have traded hand tools for massive equipment, long hours still wear farmers down. Wet weather has increased the s...
Posted on 6/23/11 at 11:41 PM
Man killed in oil-related accident near Mandaree, N.D. 
A man in his early 20s has died in an oil-related accident on a well-site near Mandaree, N.D., over the weekend, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Bismarck office. “We were informed there was a fatality that occurred in Dunn County related to oil and gas operations,” said Eric Brooks, Bismarck Area OSHA Office assistant area director.
By Forum Communications , January 09, 2012
Police say Minnesota mechanic dies in Wisconsin after vehicle falls on him
La Crosse police say 49-year-old Kevin Ryan of Winona, Minn., was killed Wednesday afternoon. A co-worker says Ryan was working on a vehicle about 12:40 p.m. when it fell. The co-worker called 911 and Ryan was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
By Associated Press , December 16, 2011
Cargill cited for 23 serious safety violations at Milwaukee slaughterhouse
Minnetonka, Minn.-based Cargill is one of the nation's largest beef processors. Federal workplace regulators this week cited Cargill Inc.'s Milwaukee beef slaughterhouse for 23 serious safety violations, the most violations the agribusiness giant has received at any of its U.S. plants in at least a decade.
By Mike Hughlett , December 10, 2011
Winnipeg-based company to pay $6,000 fine in Fargo industrial park worker death
Authorities say Noren Ellingson, 49, suffered a brain injury when a nearly two-ton metal bin fell on him at Buhler Industries on Aug. 16. He died two days later.
By Associated Press , November 02, 2011
Bismarck man dies on job when trench caves in
Burliegh County Sheriff's Major Les Witkowski says 41-year-old Troy Jeffrey Thurlby died Tuesday evening when the 9-foot-deep trench he was working in with another man began to collapse.
By Associated Press , October 19, 2011
Inquiry into oil well deaths focuses on clothing
Officials say an investigation into an oil well explosion in North Dakota that killed two workers will center on whether the men should have been wearing fire-resistant clothing under a federal safety policy that has drawn criticism from some drilling companies.
By Associated Press , September 28, 2011
Video of SeaWorld trainer's death not shown during job safety penalty hearing
A previous ruling by a federal judge gave attorneys for Occupational Safety and Health Administration the option of using video of her death to defend their decisions. Another objection to use of the video by SeaWorld lawyers was also overruled today, but the federal agency's lawyers stopped short of showing her death.
By Kyle Hightower , September 20, 2011
OSHA fines Winnipeg's Buhler Industries after worker crushed by bin in Fargo
Federal labor officials want to impose $7,000 in fines against a Canadian company after the August death of a worker at a Fargo industrial park.
By Associated Press , September 18, 2011
North Dakota second-worst state for workplace deaths
North Dakota once again had one of the highest per-capita rates of on-the-job deaths in 2009, according to a new report.
By Dave Roepke , April 27, 2011
OSHA to fine LM Wind Power $136,500
In two days in October, inside of wind-turbine blade No. 106, the amount of a hazardous substance called styrene reached 1,889 parts per million and then 2,195 parts per million, triggering air-quality alarms at LM Wind Power in Grand Forks.
By Tu-Uyen Tran , April 25, 2011
North Dakota flour business cited by OSHA for unsafe working conditions
The federal government says a North Dakota flour business has exposed workers to unsafe conditions. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing nearly $30,000 in fines for Dakota Prairie Organic Flour in Harvey.
By Associated Press , March 24, 2011
AROUND MINNESOTA: Firemen injured ... Healthy swimming ... Senator's stepsister drowns ... more
Two Minneapolis firefighters are recovering in a hospital from second- and third-degree burns while battling a house fire.
By Associated Press , July 05, 2010
Hebron woman awaits details on husband's oilfield death
Kathryne Due says she is awaiting details but that she has been told that no one was to blame for 64-year-old Larry Due's death.
By Associated Press , April 07, 2010
Montana man dies in N.D. oil field
A Montana man working in the western North Dakota oil field died after a 250-pound steel pipe fell on his head.
By Associated Press , March 09, 2010
New worker who fell at Devils Lake construction site not wearing safety equipment
The man who fell nearly 30 feet Tuesday at a construction site in Devils Lake was a new hire who was not supposed to be up on the deck from where he fell, and he wasn’t wearing the proper safety equipment.
By Stephen J. Lee , December 09, 2009
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