Now that Nevada has rung in the new year, residents of the state will pay less for electricity, have more judges in their courts and have their doctors file certain prescriptions electronically....

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Federal workplace safety officials are investigating a fatal construction accident in Rapid City.

The Rapid City Journal reports the Occupational Safety and Health...

SILVERTON, Ore. (AP) — About 50 protesters converged on the Silverton, Oregon, home of a state workplace safety regulator to protest a large fine levied against a Salem gym owner.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s workplace safety regulator has cited a frozen food manufacturer and its temporary employment agency for failing to protect hundreds of employees from the...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s workplace safety regulator has ordered the San Quentin Prison dental clinic to stop drilling and other work because unsafe practices are spreading COVID-19, it...

BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — State workplace safety officials are investigating an accident that killed a 14-year-old boy when a suburban Indianapolis building he was helping his father erect was...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Smithfield Foods and federal workplace safety investigators have reached an agreement over sharing information on a coronavirus outbreak at Smithfield's pork processing...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia officials on Wednesday passed temporary new workplace safety rules designed to protect employees from the coronavirus, becoming the first state to adopt such...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republican legislators are fast-tracking a bill that would give meatpacking plants, nursing homes and other businesses broad immunity from coronavirus lawsuits despite...

JAY, Maine (AP) — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection of the site of a paper mill blast could take several more months.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon workplace safety regulators have cited an Oregon food processor for unsafe practices after nearly three dozen of its employees tested positive for the...

KITTERY, Maine (AP) — Portsmouth Naval Shipyard touts safety among it workers, and it's being recognized for its efforts.

The shipyard has been awarded the fiscal year 2019 Chief of Naval...

MAQUOKETA, Iowa (AP) — An agency wants to fine an eastern Iowa animal food operation for workplace safety violations, saying it has exposed employees to risks that include long falls.

MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP) — A battery manufacturer in eastern Iowa has been fined $42,000 for workplace safety violations, authorities said.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota could see a rise in workers' compensation claims if marijuana is legalized, the state's workplace safety agency told lawmakers Tuesday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is restoring a workplace safety board that was abolished by former Gov. Matt Bevin.

Beshear said on Friday the move to reestablish the...

ROME (AP) — Union leaders denounced Saturday safety conditions at an automotive plant operated by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group following the death of a maintenance worker.

ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — Officials say two UPS employees were killed in a vehicle accident at the package-delivery service’s hub at Southern California’s Ontario International Airport.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Hilcorp Energy Co. and one of its drilling contractors have each paid fines of $25,000 or more after a worker died at a company drilling rig on Alaska’s North Slope,...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa trooper who was fired after a lengthy sexual harassment and workplace safety investigation has filed a lawsuit alleging he was wrongly terminated and illegally...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The contractor overseeing stone restoration on the Missouri state Capitol plans to appeal federal fines for workplace safety violations.

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BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Workplace safety officials are investigating the death of an Arkansas man who fell from a radio tower in southwest Mississippi.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gov. Chris Sununu was surrounded by the family of a deceased highway department worker as he signed a bill aimed at improving workplace safety for New Hampshire's public...

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Amazon has resolved the workplace violations cited against the online retail giant's temporary distribution center in Idaho.

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — A Newton company that builds wind turbine blades has settled with state regulators following an investigation into workplace safety violations.

BOSTON (AP) — Labor organizations and a workplace safety advocacy group say 69 people died of work-related causes in Massachusetts last year, down slightly from 74 in 2017.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The 2016 death of a Northfield Highway Department worker has led to the passage of bill aimed at improving workplace safety for New Hampshire's public sector...

PICAYUNE, Miss. (AP) — A federal workplace safety agency is fining a south Mississippi plastics manufacturer after an employee lost four fingers.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's workplace safety office has fined an outdoor guide company for failing to make a timely report of a death.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Grand Canyon National Park officials say they are investigating whether anyone was exposed to radiation at unsafe levels while samples of uranium ore sat in plastic buckets...

SCITUATE, Mass. (AP) — Workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a 61-year-old man who was struck by a bulldozer at a construction site in Scituate.

Authorities say the man was dead when police and paramedics arrived at the scene Friday afternoon. His name has not been released.

Local and state police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A complaint alleging that employees at Iowa's workplace safety agency used a toy banana to make sexual jokes triggered an investigation that led to the removal of two top officials, according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's workplace safety agency has reduced a fine by nearly 90 percent for violations at Iowa's maximum-security prison that put staff at risk during emergencies.

The Iowa Department of Corrections will pay a $5,000 fine for violations at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison under a settlement agreement with Labor Commissioner Michael Mauro's office.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Matching grants of up to $5,000 to improve workplace safety and health are being made available for Michigan companies that have up to 250 employees.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A workplace safety agency has cited transportation hub Big Soo Terminal in northwestern Iowa for a March incident that killed an employee.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A construction company has dropped its appeal of federal workplace safety officials' determination that it was negligent in a 2016 trench collapse in Boise that killed two workers and injured a third.