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OSHA Cites Firearms Assembler After Employee Loses Fingertip

April 8, 2019

ILION, NY—Remington Arms was cited for more than two dozen violations of workplace safety and health standards—and fined more than $200,000 as a result—after an employee’s fingertip was amputated while working at the company’s assembly plant here.


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Drunken Workers Disrupt Production at BMW Assembly Plant

March 22, 2017
MUNICH—Production at BMW’s assembly plant here came to a standstill for almost an hour after two workers passed out during their shift due to alcohol and drug consumption.
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Is Smoking Pot on the Line Fine?

January 27, 2017

WINDSOR, ON—An employee at Ventra Assembly Co. here is seeking permission to use medical marijuana during work hours.


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Occupational Injuries Costs Businesses $170 Billion Annually

June 15, 2016

NEW YORK—Approximately 3.7 million workers are injured at work each year, costing businesses $170 billion annually. Injuries caused during material handling represent the majority of incidents, accounting for 32 percent of insurance claims.


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Furniture Assembly Plant Sets Safety Record

April 25, 2016

DAYTON, TN—Workers at the La-Z-Boy assembly plant here have logged more than 6.8 million production hours without recording a lost-time injury case, a record for a U.S. furniture manufacturer according to industry trade group American Home Furnishings Alliance.


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Worker Safety, Company Turnaround Go Hand-in-Hand

Worker Safety, Company Turnaround Go Hand-in-Hand

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Jim Camillo
April 6, 2016

Times were tough for the Timken Co. at the start of the 21st century. In March 2000, the Canton, OH-based manufacturer of antifriction roller bearings and related components announced plans to cut 600 jobs worldwide—after having trimmed 1,700 jobs in the previous two years. It also closed plants in Australia and England, and was relying more heavily on sources of steel outside the United States.


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Worker Injured in Explosion at Air Bag Assembly Plant

February 6, 2015

PROMONTORY, UT—One person was injured as a result of an explosion late Thursday afternoon at Autoliv’s air bag assembly plant here.


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Worker Killed When Air Tank Explodes at Assembly Plant

February 4, 2015

CAROL STREAM, IL—A 35-year-old welder was killed when an air tank exploded at a machinery manufacturing plant here Monday night.


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Worker Killed at Kia Assembly Plant

October 10, 2014

WEST POINT, GA—A worker at Kia Motors’ assembly plant here was killed Oct. 7 after heavy materials fell on him in the stamping department.


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Suicide Shuts Down GM Assembly Plant

March 20, 2014

FLINT, MI—GM’s truck assembly plant here shut down March 18 after an employee committed suicide there earlier.


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