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MSHA: Signal Peak Silica did not inspect and maintain dam in 2025 collapse

January 30, 2026 · In its final report, MSHA found Signal Peak Silica and Stout Excavating did not inspect and maintain the tailing pond dam that ruptured, overturning an excavator & killing the operator.

CSB commends St. Louis Board of Aldermen for implementing recommendations

January 23, 2026 · The CSB commended the St. Louis, Missouri, Board of Aldermen for following its recommendation to revise the city’s Mechanical Code to meet national pressure vessels and boiler standards.

OSHA orders Balkan Express to reinstate worker who reported safety concerns, pay $100K

January 9, 2026 · OSHA ordered Balkan Express LLC to reinstate a worker after they reported safety concerns and pay $100,000. FMCSA inspectors placed 23% of the company’s fleet OOS in the past two years.

CSB recommends facility siting evaluation to U.S. Steel

December 30, 2025 · After a fatal explosion, the CSB called on U.S. Steel to conduct a facility siting evaluation at its Clairton Coke Works to address immediate hazards to workers based on building locations.

OSHA cites New Horizons Baking for lockout/tagout, guarding violations

December 23, 2025 · OSHA cited New Horizons Baking $394,849 for three repeat and nine serious violations involving lockout/tagout, guarding, caught-between, caught-in, pinch-point, and struck-by hazards.

OSHA fines Sound Construction $1.2 million for repeat safety violations

December 22, 2025 · OSHA fined Easton, Conn.-based Sound Construction $1.2 million. After a fatal 2023 trench collapse, a follow-up inspection found numerous willful hazards, from training to shield use.

CSB issues update on investigation of two NOx releases at Austin Powder

December 18, 2025 · A CSB investigation update indicates hazardous nitrogen oxide gas released at Austin Powder in Ohio when a cooling system was shut down and in Tennessee during failed reactor startups.

CSB releases video animation of fatal 2021 Yenkin-Majestic explosion

December 9, 2025 · The CSB showed how inadequate testing, engineering controls, and emergency plans contributed to the fatal 2021 Yenkin-Majestic Paint explosion in Columbus, Ohio in its new video.

OSHA fines Korean construction company after worker death

December 4, 2025 · OSHA proposed $20,522 in penalties on Hyoungwon E&C America for nitrogen gas asphyxiation hazards following a fatality investigation at a White, Georgia construction site.

NTSB issues safety alert on unsecured railroad equipment

December 2, 2025 · After five accident investigations, including one fatality, the NTSB issued a safety alert on unexpected movement of unsecured railroad equipment, including a list of best practices.

Taylor Fresh Foods previously cited for amputation, lockout/tagout violations

December 1, 2025 · Since 2015, OSHA investigated four injuries from slicers, conveyors, and turntables at Taylor Fresh Foods Inc. Following a fatality, the company now faces over $1M in proposed fines.

OSHA proposes over $1 million fine on Taylor Fresh Foods

December 1, 2025 · OSHA proposed fines of over $1M on Taylor Fresh Foods Inc. and PL Solutions Group, citing a lack of lockout/tagout procedures, after a worker was killed while cleaning a machine.

New video of fatal Sun Metro bus depot explosion

October 31, 2025 · El Paso, Texas Fire Department investigators determined a CNG tank was punctured then ignited and exploded when a bus fell off a lift at the Sun Metro maintenance facility, killing two.

CSB team to investigate Accurate Energetic Systems explosion

October 27, 2025 · ATF has finished clearing undetonated explosives and other hazardous materials from the AES site. The CSB is sending a team this week to investigate the explosion that killed 16.

OSHA cites two companies after workers falls and drowns

October 3, 2025 · After a worker drowned while removing scaffolding from a bridge, OSHA fined Seminole Equipment and L.C. Whitford over $900,000 combined for not using fall protection or life jackets.