A 16-year-old employee at a poultry processor was killed after being pulled into a chicken deboning machine. The proposed fine for the Mississippi plant: $212,000

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A photo of a chicken processing line. A Mississippi poultry processor is facing more than $200,000 in fines after two employees were killed at the facility in a little more than two years.

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Elon Musk told SpaceX workers not to wear safety clothes because he doesn't like bright colors: report

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X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk leaves a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023
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A 19-year-old died after a concrete mixer he was inside cleaning was accidentally started up. His employers could have prevented his death, the Labor Department says.

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A construction company could face over $260,000 in fines after a 23-year-old was killed by a crane collapse

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OSHA has proposed $262,977 of fines against the construction contractor.

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Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores will be given 48 hours to fix issues like blocked fire exits and towering stacks of boxes – or they'll be fined $100,000 a day

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Customers shop at a Dollar Tree store in the Austin neighborhood on August 02, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Extreme heat is holding the economy back. Don't expect federal legislation to help any time soon.

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How the heat wave is hurting your productivity at work

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A woman cools off with fans and mist during a heat wave at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 15, 2014.

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Dollar General workers at a Florida store were left without a working restroom, OSHA says

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Dollar General has been repeatedly fined by OSHA.

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American Airlines worker found to have been killed by accident after an airline investigator suggested it may have been suicide, report says

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Michal Ingraham worked for American Airlines at Austin airport.

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A 16-year-old boy died while working in a Mississippi poultry plant. An unscrupulous hiring agency may be to blame, a workplace expert says.

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Duvan Tomas Perez, 16, died on July 14.

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