OSHA says a temporary sawmill worker at Griffin Lumber & Hardware in Cordele, GA, might not have lost an arm if machine guards had been in place. The agency gave Griffin Lumber a willful violation notice and proposed a $56,000 fine for ignoring earlier warnings.

A wood manufacturing company employee was killed when the cab of his truck was accidentally filled with sawdust. OSHA is expected to investigate the incident, which took place at Chips Inc., a wood pellet manufacturer near Zion Crossroads, VA.

OSHA says employees at Wood Fibers Inc. worked at risk of amputation, fire, and electrical shock amid large amounts of combustible dust. The October 2014 citation, the fifth in three years at the wood pellets maker, carried proposed fines of $71,610.

U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found workers at Wood Fibers Inc. at risk of amputation, fire and other life-threatening hazards for the fifth time in three years.

Combustible sawdust - comdust - is a threat to woodworking businesses, which can literally go up in smoke. Now comdust is drawing OSHA scrutiny to woodshops large and small over liability for worker safety. This free webcast goes live March 4 at 1:00 pm CST.

Countertop workers are in serious danger from silica dust emitted in cutting, finishing and even installing countertops. As 61 workers developed silicosis, some requiring lung transplants, OHSA and NIOSH issued a hazard alert.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health today jointly issued a hazard alert about protecting workers from significant crystalline silica exposure during manufacturing, finishing, and installing natural and manufactured stone countertops.

Ashley Furniture said OSHA’s announcement of safety violations is only an allegation and it strongl Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. strongly disputes the allegations issued today by the U.S. Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regarding the company’s safety operations in its Arcadia, Wisconsin facility. y disagrees with each and every opinion.

Ashley Furniture Industries faces $1.766 million in OSHA penalties for having more than 1,000 work-related injuries over a 3-1/2-year period. The residential furniture giant is disputing the allegations.

Graham Lumber company cited by US Department of Labor's OSHA for safety and health violations following fatal electrocution at Mississippi sawmill