El ritmo de la automatización de la cadena de suministro se está acelerando en estos momentos, en Amazon y en los almacenes de todo el mundo. Es un espacio que infunde asombro entre los ejecutivos centrados en la cuenta de resultados que buscan reducir los costos.
Improving communication and training as well as fostering trust between the company and its workers are some of the areas where Norfolk Southern could do better, according to a Wednesday report from the Federal Railroad Administration assessing the eastern U.S. Class I railroad’s safety culture.
FRA’s report comes on the heels of an unrelated announcement Wednesday from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration describing a settlement among OSHA, NS and the Brotherhood of...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fra-osha-call-on-norfolk-southern-to-review-safety-practices
The U.S. Department of Labor is preparing to impose nearly $380,000 in penalties on W8 Shipping LLC, an ocean freight wholesaler, for two dozen safety violations at the company’s warehouse adjacent to the Port of Savannah.
The Los Angeles-based shipping company, which specializes in exporting secondhand automobiles, boats and heavy machinery, “willfully” exposed 43 workers at the Garden City, Georgia, facility to potentially deadly hazards by allowing them to work with automobiles and...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing CSX be fined $121,200 over citations related to a December 2021 explosion at the company’s coal terminal in Baltimore.
The explosion, which occurred at CSX’s Curtis Bay Coal Terminal, was felt from several miles away, according to local media reports and tweets from nearby residents. Following the blast, CSX said all employees were accounted for and there were no injuries.
The penalties CSX faces include nine serious and two...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/osha-proposes-fines-for-csx-over-baltimore-coal-terminal-explosion
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (which oversees Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana) recently affirmed a $35,000 fine against an employer whose foreman allowed his crew member to work while a violation continued, despite explicit instructions by a company manager to fix an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules violation.
Background
An employer’s construction crew was installing a concrete drainage pipe alongside a road. For the first two days of the project, the crew had...
Trucking companies and other private businesses covered by the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate have been given a small amount of compliance breathing room by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a federal appeals court reinstated the rule.
In a decision issued late Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit voted 2-1 to grant a motion by OSHA to lift a stay of the vaccine-or-test Emergency Temporary...
The owner of a tanker testing and repair business has been sentenced to a month in prison and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine for lying to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about an illegal repair to a fuel tanker that resulted in a 2018 explosion that severely injured him and another worker.
Loren Kim Jacobson, 65, of Pocatello, Idaho, owner of KCCS Inc., also pleaded guilty in May to violating the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, admitting he had conducted unsafe repairs...
FMCSA new authority approval at record high from spot rates and tight capacity The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is setting records. New motor carrier authority approvals are at an all-time high — around 10,000 each month. As of September, around 82,000 approvals for authority had been granted in 2021, compared with 59,500 for the entire year of 2020.
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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loaded-and-rolling-respect-my-fmcsa-authoritah
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District issued an emergency stay Saturday on the enforcement of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate..
The appeals court questioned the constitutionality of the mandate in its decision.
“Because the petitions give cause to believe there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate, the Mandate is hereby STAYED pending further action by this court,” a court document read.
The Department of Labor and Occupational Safety and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-appeals-court-puts-vaccine-mandate-on-hold-for-now
Supply chain anxiety is mainstream news this peak retail season. As of Oct. 5, 55 ships were anchored off the coast of California. Big retail is preparing the public for imminent shortages, while truckers are working tirelessly and bracing themselves to deal with pent-up demand. The CEO of MGA Entertainment, a leading global toymaker, recently said, “Everything that can go wrong is going wrong at the same time.”
But once the cargo hits the docks, labor shortages in warehouses are further...