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Subject: Workplace Safety

  • OSHA Fines Goodyear $67K After Death of Employee

    Five months after a Goodyear employee died following an explosion at a tire and rubber chemical plant in southeast Houston, the feds have issued a rash of citations to the factory for failing to safeguard its workers. But when it's all said and done, the fines would cost the company less than $70,000. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began its investigation in June after a piece of equipment fatally struck a worker. A valve was improperly clos

    November 28, 2008
  • Hard Labor

    May 26, 1994
  • The Fire Next Time?

    April 18, 1996
  • The Fine This Time

    July 11, 1996
  • Shell Games

    March 27, 1997
  • Bad Faith and Texas Mutual Insurance: Plausible Deniability

    State doesn't keep track of how many denials are reversed on appeal

    November 13, 2008
  • Bad Faith and Texas Mutual Insurance

    November 13, 2008
  • Swift Meatpacking Plant and Illegal Immigrants

    April 5, 2007
  • Judge Says No To Beards In The HPD

    ​The effort by some Houston police officers to wear beards on the job (and off the job, too, we guess) was dealt a setback when a federal judge threw their lawsuit out of court.HPD brass trumpeted the decision by U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal in a press release in which chief Harold Hurtt said the judge's "decision will enable the Houston Police Department to continue to equip officers so they can safely do their jobs of protecting the public at all times."Hurtt and HPD had argued that bea

    September 10, 2009