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OSHA proposes $217,000 in fines against US Postal Service for electrical hazards at Denver mail processing facility

Added: July 21st, 2010

DENVER - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the U.S. Postal Service for alleged willful and serious violations of safety standards at the Denver Network Distribution Center in Denver, for exposing workers to electrical hazards. (read more...)

Safety Meetings

Added: July 20th, 2010

Manufacturing-Works will hold a series of stakeholder meetings on Worker Injury and Illness Prevention Programs throughout Wyoming. (read more...)

New enforcement procedures target employers who ignore OSHA standards

Added: July 19th, 2010

To address urgent safety and health problems facing Americans in the workplace, OSHA is implementing a new Severe Violator Enforcement Program and increasing civil penalty amounts. (read more...)

New OSHA proposal to improve worker protection from injury and death on walking-working surfaces

Added: June 30th, 2010

OSHA has proposed a revision of the current Walking-Working Surfaces standard to require employers to provide their workers with fall protection devices such as self-retracting lanyards and ladder safety and rope descent systems. (read more...)

Company fined more than $1.6 million after worker suffocates in grain bin

Added: June 29th, 2010

OSHA has issued 23 citations against the South Dakota Wheat Growers Association for the total disregard it showed for its employees’ lives by allowing a worker to enter an unsafe silo where he was buried and suffocated beneath a mound of grain. OSHA fined the company $1,610,000 after inspectors concluded that the Dec. 2009 death at its McLaughlin, S.D., grain handling operation could have easily been prevented by implementing required safety precautions. (read more...)

Precision Analysis of Riverton is Named Wyoming Small Business of the Year

Added: June 1st, 2010

Wyoming’s Precision Analysis in Rock Springs won the award for Wyoming Small Business of the Year. (read more...)

Company fined more than $130,000 after worker’s hand is partially amputated by unsafe machine

Added: May 28th, 2010

OSHA inspectors found that a motorized saw at the Yonkers, N.Y., plant of H&H Woodworking Inc. cut off part of a worker’s hand because the machine was not equipped with required safety features. (read more...)

5th Annual MEP Awards

Added: May 27th, 2010

Every year the MEP centers gather in Orlando to recognize and celebrate the achievements of some of our own that have gone above and beyond to make significant impacts to our MEP national system and more importantly on our manufacturing clients. The MEP National Conference Awards Ceremony is a great way to acknowledge these individuals/groups and celebrate their contributions with their family, friends and colleagues. (read more...)

Wyoming Innovation Marketplace launches

Added: May 20th, 2010

The Wyoming Business Council and the University of Wyoming’s Manufacturing-Works Program announced the creation of the Wyoming Innovation Marketplace (WIM), a program by the National Institute of Standards and Technology/Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. (read more...)

Eagle Bronze sends product to China that was originally supposed to be “Made In China”

Added: May 6th, 2010

Eagle Bronze Foundry in Lander has been casting for artist Arturo DiModica for the last five years. DiModica is known for his "Charging Bull" in New York City. Now, a version of that bull in bronz that was cast here in Wyoming will be installed on the Shanghai Bund. (read more...)

CANDO helps get you Lean

Added: March 23rd, 2010

Recently, CANDO received a USDA grant that paid for Lean Manufacturing training courses to area businesses. The first training seminar, free to the businesses participating, took place Feb. 25 at Eastern Wyoming College. (read more...)

Forum brings Wyo. companies, Brazilian business consultant together for growth

Added: March 17th, 2010

A U.S.-Brazil Business Development Forum will be held this week to help Wyoming-based companies establish and grow strategic business partnerships in the emerging, giant South American market of Brazil. (read more...)

The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

Added: February 17th, 2010

According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million people currently unemployed. (read more...)

Second Issue of the Wyoming Business Climate Magazine Now Available

Added: February 1st, 2010

The second issue of the Wyoming Business Images magazine is now available, showcasing the best of Wyoming's people, places and progressive business climate. (read more...)

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