ROXBURY — Record Hill Wind LLC will be presented with the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program award at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25, in recognition of its safety achievement program, said Julie D. Rabinowitz, director of Policy, Operations and Communications with the Maine Department of Labor. A certificate and banner will be presented by […]
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Bruce R. Poliquin
1949 – 2015 AUBURN — Bruce Ronald Poliquin, 66, went to heaven to join many loved ones there waiting for him on Sunday, July 26. Bruce, the oldest of four children, was born on April 5, 1949, to Rudy and Georgette (Giguere) Poliquin in Lewiston. He graduated from Edward Little High School in 1966 and […]
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OSHA: Fatal incident reported at pulp mill in Old Town
OLD TOWN, Maine — Officials with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed they are investigating a fatal incident that happened Tuesday afternoon at the mill in Old Town. Karen Billups, assistant area director for OSHA, said Tuesday the agency is preparing to start an investigation into an incident at the Expera mill, which was […]
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OSHA won’t cite elephant sanctuary owners in founder’s death
HOPE — Federal workplace safety regulators will not cite the owners of a Maine elephant sanctuary where a caretaker died. In a March 4 letter to Hope Elephants, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recommends that workers not be in the same unrestricted space as elephants except in rare circumstances. The letter was provided to […]
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Safety officials call Greene contractor ‘serial violator,’ seek court help
GREENE — Federal officials say a Greene-based roofing contractor is a “serial violator” of safety laws and needs to be put in jail if he continues to ignore them and the more than $400,000 in fines levied against him since 2000. Owner Stephen Lessard said Wednesday that he has been unfairly targeted by his competitors […]
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Auburn’s Formed Fiber Technologies cited for federal safety violations
AUBURN — The U.S. Labor Department has cited Formed Fiber Technologies for seven violations of workplace safety standards and is proposing more than $100,000 in fines. According to a statement from the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Tuesday morning, the Auburn plant has been exposing employees to “the risk of lacerations, crushed fingers, […]
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OSHA investigating death of Hope Elephants co-founder
AUGUSTA — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration office in Augusta on Thursday confirmed that the federal agency is investigating the Sept. 9 death of James Laurita, who was crushed by one of his elephants after he fell and hit his head on the concrete walkway around the animals’ pen. Though no more details were […]
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Formed Fiber’s Ohio plant hit with $800K fine
Formed Fiber Technologies Inc., based in Auburn, has been hit with nearly $1 million in fines after federal officials issued 14 safety citations at the company’s plant in Sidney, Ohio. Officials from the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the Sidney plant was cited after falsely claiming in 2013 that previous safety issues […]
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Lewiston company among those cited for safety violations
CONCORD, N.H. — The U.S. Labor Department’s OSHA proposed more than $280,000 in fines against contractors working on a power plant in Berlin, N.H., including a Lewiston-based electrical contractor. OSHA said workers on the site were exposed to serious and potentially fatal injuries from cave-ins, falls, scaffold collapses, crushing, lead and electrocution hazards. No one […]