In comments to that rule OSHA previously stated that the Electronic Recordkeeping Rule “does prohibit employers from using drug testing (or the threat of drug testing) as a form of adverse action against employees who report injuries or illnesses.” Those comments ignited a firestorm.

A wood chipper and an Upstate New York employer’s failure to provide safety training combined to make a 23-year-old worker’s first day on the job his tragic last, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.

Monday was quite a busy day for the Gulfport, Mississippi police. The department Tweeted at 3:13 p.m. they had investigated 14 crashes involving over 30 vehicles. An hour later, it was up to 19 and counting.

Working to clear crusted corn from the sides of a grain bin, a 52-year-old maintenance employee found himself engulfed in hundreds of pounds of grain, just minutes after the wall of corn collapsed and buried him.

Police say three people were injured and a woman is under arrest after an early morning accident involving four vehicles in Cranston.

A northwest suburban high school district has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit by five former student athletes who said they were physically assaulted in hazing rituals.

Officials have ordered the evacuation of 300 homes downwind of a fire at a former steel mill site outside Buffalo, citing air quality concerns.

One person died when the wheel of a trailer detached and crashed through a car’s windshield Tuesday morning in West Dallas.

Authorities in St. Clair County are investigating a fatal accident that happened on Illinois Route 50 just before 9:30 pm. Fox 2 has learned that a domestic dispute in a semi-tractor trailer cab between a man and a woman caused the accident.

Authorities are working to determine what caused an accident that ultimately killed one person Wednesday night. Slick roads "played a role" in the accident that shut down several lanes of I-10 Ramsgate Drive and Huebner Road around 6:30 p.m., a sergeant at the scene said.

A father and son have been sentenced to jail after pleading no contest to auto insurance fraud. Harpreet Singh and his father, Satnam Singh, pleaded no contest to felony auto insurance fraud and to a misdemeanor offense of making a false report to police.

An Arkansas man died after a deer was struck by another vehicle and the animal went through his windshield on a state highway in northwest Poinsett County on Friday morning, authorities said.

The amount of court-ordered restitution payments for insurance fraud in Kentucky has increased by 800% this year, the Fraud Division of the Kentucky Department of Insurance (DOI) has said.

Samsung is offering repairs, refunds and replacements for about 2.8 million top-load washers after receiving hundreds of reports of machines vibrating excessively — in some cases, so much that the lids became detached.

San Francisco on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the developers of a sinking and tilting luxury high-rise, claiming they knew about the problems but did not disclose the information to potential home buyers as required by law.