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When sued for withholding records, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has fared poorly in court.
Pesticides released by bug bombs can linger in homes for weeks at a time, which some researchers claim is a potential health risk
Agency won’t require employers to routinely report detailed internal records of worker injuries or illnesses.
For years, truck drivers hauling billions of dollars of clothing, appliances and other consumer goods from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have complained about rampant wage law violations by the trucking firms that hire them. The alleged abuses include failing to pay minimum wages and overtime. But even when truckers’ claims have…
An obscure program that has judged vaccine injury and death claims for three decades passes a financial milestone
A fateful decision by Congress more than 40 years ago gives the sites unique immunity from safety oversight, even as hundreds of employees have been killed or seriously injured.
Without explanation, officials eventually altered crash data, revealing a death toll more than 3 times higher than previously acknowledged.
Despite mounting casualties from crashes of recreational off-highway vehicles, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has shot down a proposal to track injuries and deaths involving the popular trail machines.
A new survey has found that nearly 50 percent of emergency physicians have been physically assaulted on the job.
For the second time in recent months, the U.S. Department of Labor has extracted penalties from a California farm business blamed for the deadly crash of a vehicle transporting migrant field workers to their jobs.
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