The second charge was for failing to ensure that all the workers wore safety harnesses while in a confined space. C-NLOPB imposed the company with a fine of $45,000 for each charge, thereby ...

Injury & Fatality Reports Since the 1970s, Purdue University’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department has been documenting and investigating incidents involving grain storage and handling ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board would investigate such an explosion. The White House has proposed ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — El Paso Water officials identified the man who died after being "trapped in a confined space" at Bustamante Wastewater Treatment Plant in Socorro Friday afternoon. ...

Confined spaces include underground vaults, tanks, storage bins, manholes, pits, silos, underground utility vaults and pipelines. See 29 CFR 1910.146. Administrative or office personnel normally have ...

Initial size-up/assignments. The initial size-up confirmed that this was, in fact, a confined-space rescue. The IC assigned the captain paramedic of Engine 81 as the medical group supervisor.

In addition, of the total number of confinement cases, 42 grain-related entrapments represented a 44.8% increase over 2021. This was the highest number of reported grain entrapments in over a decade.

While the incident was reported to the Chemical Safety Board due to significant property damage, Radford AAP did not identify any safety or environmental hazards, according to the release.

It also provides a historical analysis of agricultural confined space hazards. In 2022, the summary reported 83 cases – 24 fatal and 59 non-fatal – involving agricultural confined spaces. This ...

Suncor Energy has pleaded guilty to two charges related to a 2019 incident aboard the Terra Nova floating production, storage and offloading vessel, resulting in hundreds of thousands in fines.

Suncor Energy Inc. SU, Canada's premier integrated energy company, faced serious consequences for the 2019 incident that happened aboard the Terra Nova floating production storage and offloading ...

Last year saw a roughly 40% increase in the number of reported cases involving agricultural confined spaces, according to the 2022 Summary of U.S. Agricultural Confined Space-Related Injuries and ...