Safety Culture Plus

• Apr 04, 2009

NIOSH has outlined a two-year proposed project to find ways to elevate the safety culture of America’s coal mines. Explained in a March 31 Federal Register notice, the project would involve surveys, observations, interviews, and other collections of data at six underground coal mines to assess their current culture.

The agency asked for public comments within 60 days on whether the proposal will be useful and how to ensure the collected information is highly useful. The notice says 1,080 surveys and interviews would be conducted. The only cost to the participating mine personnel would be their time.

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NIOSH Proposes Survey of Coal Mines’ Safety Culture — Occupational Health & Safety

Saturday, 04 Apr 2009 07:26am

Detectives are examining the cause of a fatal industrial accident at a Hunter Valley coal mine this morning.
About 3am today, a 34-year-old Maitland man was working underground in the mine on Stoneycreek Road at Glennies Creek near Singleton.
Inquiries into the incident continue, however it appears that the man may have been struck by a piece of machinery while working underground.
The man suffered head injuries and died at the scene.

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Latest Media Releases – NSW Police Force

Posted: 5:29 pm PDT April 3, 2009

The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health this week issued $28,685 in penalties against BART for alleged safety violations related to the death of an employee who was killed on the tracks in October.

BART is appealing the Cal/OSHA citations on the grounds that some of the laws BART allegedly violated may not apply to the transit agency.

James Strickland, 44, was struck and killed by a Pittsburg/Bay Point-bound BART train as he walked along the tracks parallel to David Avenue in Concord the morning of Oct. 14.

Trains were single-tracking through the area that morning to make way for routine maintenance, and the train that struck Strickland was traveling north on the southbound tracks.

On the day of the accident, Strickland and another BART employee, both structures inspectors, were assigned to perform an inspection between Oak Grove and Bancroft roads, according to an accident report completed by BART safety investigators last month.

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BART Fined For Safety Violations In Fatal October Accident – Reno News Story – KRXI Reno

by North Platte Bulletin Staff – 4/3/2009

A Gering Nebraska company was fined $25,000 and placed on two years probation for not protecting a worker who was killed when a ditch collapsed.

United States Attorney Joe W. Stecher announced that the Midwest Farm Service Company, Inc. was sentenced today for violating the Occupational Safety and Health laws Act of 1970.

Midwest Farm Service pled guilty and was sentenced on April 1, 2009, to an information charging the offense. The violation resulted in the death of Travis Ballinger, a laborer employed there. Midwest Farm Services drills wells and irrigation systems throughout Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota. On March 7, 2007, near Scottsbluf. Travis Ballinger and two other laborers were attempting to remove dirt from a trench that was inaccessible by a backhoe. The trench was 3 feet wide by 8 feet deep and contained no protective support or shield system, nor was the trench sloped. This violated safety standards that required such excavations to be protected by an adequate protection system. While removing the dirt from the trench, a section of the wall of the trench collapsed and Travis Ballinger was completely covered by the dirt. He died of suffocation.

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North Platte Nebraska’s favorite newspaper – The North Platte Bulletin

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