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OSHA recently investigated a preventable incident where a worker using a PFAS was killed after the lanyard was severed by an exposed edge during the fall. Evidence indicated the lifeline was damaged
during the fall, not before. In this case, the lanyard was not approved for working on or around sharp edges. Lifeline manufacturers warn about the use of lifelines around edges that could damage the line
or prevent it from effectively arresting the fall. Some manufacturers have even developed Self-Retracting Lanyards (SRL) designed for use around exposed edges (SRL-LE).

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HATTIESBURG, MS – The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a Hattiesburg poultry processing plant that requires the company to pay $164,814 in fines and implement enhanced safety measures to protect their employees from well-known machine hazards.

The agreement follows an investigation by the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration into the failure by Mar-Jac Poultry to use required safety procedures that would have kept a teenaged worker from being fatally caught in a machine as they cleaned it in July 2023. [ more ]

Over 1,600 gallons of firefighting foam containing hazardous PFAS "forever chemicals" spilled in Brunswick, Maine early Monday morning after a fire suppression system malfunctioned at the former Brunswick Naval Air Base.

The foam was discharged in a hangar at what's now the Brunswick Executive Airport before entering the sewer and storm water systems. The firefighting foam, AFFF, contains PFAS chemicals that smother jet fuel fires. [ more ]