OSHA cited the warehouse after finding that the company put its workers at risk of musculoskeletal disorders. Amazon said an improved safety protocol has reduced injuries.
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Opinion: Almost never is a workplace death unpreventable
While the nation, and Coloradans, continue to recover from the unprecedented social and economic impacts of this horrible pandemic, we must not lose sight of another killer which, when ignored, claims the lives of our family members, friends and neighbors: Workplace fatalities. In 2021, 46 Colorado workers in businesses under the jurisdiction of the federal […]
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Colorado dairy fined $25K for worker’s death in manure pit
LASALLE — A dairy in northern Colorado has been fined nearly $25,000 after the death of a worker whose truck slipped into a pit filled with liquid manure. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Shelton Land and Cattle LTD, which does business as Shelton Dairy Corp., on Sept. 24 for the March death of 44-year-old […]
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JBS Foods cited after death in chemical vat in Colorado
GREELEY — JBS Foods Inc. is facing about $59,000 in fines for the death of a worker who fell into a vat of chemicals used to process animal hides at one of the company’s meat processing facilities in northern Colorado. The employee at the Greeley plant fell into the vat March 27 while trying to […]
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Safeway faces OSHA fines after Denver worker loses 4 fingers
Safeway faces $339,000 in fines following a workplace accident at a milk packaging plant in Denver in which an employee lost four fingers. The Denver Post reports that the U.S. Department of Labor notified the grocer this week that they have until Sept. 13 to address workplace safety violations and pay the fines, request a conference with […]
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Steel mill furnace explodes in Pueblo, injures 7
PUEBLO — A furnace explosion at a steel mill in Colorado injured seven workers, three critically. All seven were able to walk out and expected to survive after Saturday’s blast at the EVRAZ Pueblo steel mill, Vice President of Operations Dave Light said. Two of the more seriously injured workers were hospitalized with respiratory injuries. […]
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How Amazon hid its safety crisis in Colorado — and nationwide
This story was produced by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization. Get their investigations emailed to you directly by signing up at revealnews.org/newsletter. By Will Evans, Rachel de Leon, Katharine Mieszkowski, Soo Oh, Andrew Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Matt Thompson and Nikki Frick, Reveal On Cyber Monday 2014, Amazon operations chief Dave […]
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Workers protest $15,615 federal fine for JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley where coronavirus killed six
By Pattie Nieberg, The Associated Press/Report for America A union representing workers at a Colorado meatpacking plant where six workers died of COVID-19 and hundreds more were infected staged a protest Wednesday, claiming that federal officials should have fined the company more for its alleged failure to provide safe working conditions. The JBS USA-owned plant […]
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Focus on language helped drive down injuries for Spanish-speaking construction workers in Colorado
Cristobal Delgado spent three years working as a roofer after moving to the U.S. from Panama. He took a risk on every roof that he climbed because he’d never received a minute of safety training. He mentioned this during a fall-protection safety seminar given by his new employer, Haselden Construction in Centennial, which put the […]