Occupational Safety & Health Reporter: Current Reports Index-Summary

MACHINE GUARDING

– Grain handling, OSHA clarifies effective methods of protecting workers in interpretation, 65
– Steel maker faces fine for violations at Tex. plant, 452

MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT

– Repair company faces fines for failure to abate hazards at Tex. facility, 305

MACOSH

See MARITIME ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (MACOSH)

MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET OFFICE (OMB)

– Chief performance officer, Obama names Zients to fill new position, 410
– Information and Regulatory Affairs Office

See INFORMATION AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS OFFICE (OIRA)

MANGANESE (7439-96-5)

– Fumes from welding rods, workers file failure to warn suits (E.D. Tex.), 17

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

– National Assn. of Manufacturers, Campbell to chair, In Brief, 67
– Roller bearing maker faces fine for violations at Ala. plant, 176

MARITIME ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (MACOSH)

– Priorities include ergonomics, container safety, 262
– Speed limits and safety zones, meeting scheduled, In Brief, 370

MARITIME INDUSTRY

– Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act

See LONGSHORE AND HARBOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT (LHWCA)

– MACOSH

See MARITIME ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (MACOSH)

– McFatter Technical Center, OSHA alliance, In Brief, 453

MASSACHUSETTS

– Concrete products maker faces fines following inspection, 67
– Firearms maker faces fine for lack of protection against lead exposure, 66
– Mechanical systems contractor faces fines for confined spaces violations, 408
– Metal forger faces fines for alleged safety violations, 242
– Public employees, governor sets up panels to study safety hazards at state agencies, 366
– Roofing contractor faces fine for alleged fall, scaffold hazards, 368
– Shipyard dismantlers face fines following inspection, 65
– Training, safety alliance to train alternative high school students, In Brief, 82

MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS (MSDS)

– Hazard communication studies uncover flaws, Special Report, 50

MEDICAL DEVICES

– Reusable blood tube holders, contaminated needles removal violates bloodborne pathogen standard (D.C. Cir.), 288

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE

– Airborne diseases, Cal. proposes rule, 173; revision, In Brief, 306; state approves rule, union urges federal OSHA to follow suit, 422
– Electronic records, Schnorr updates science board on NIOSH project, 327
– Job safety outlook, 2009, SplRpt (1/22/09) S–20
– Lead, per-employee citations upheld (RevComm), 308
– Nanoparticles, NIOSH recommendations, In Brief, 140

METALS

– Cobalt-tungsten carbide powders and hard metals, NTP solicits comments on carcinogenicity, 138

METALS INDUSTRY

– Asbestos, fabricator faces fines for lack of protection at N.Y. facility, 177
– Forger faces fines for alleged safety violations at Mass. plant, 242
– Stamping firm faces fine after worker's hand crushed in power press, 369

METALWORKING FLUIDS

– Automaker sophisticated user, workers' cannot sue bulk chemical suppliers (Mich. Ct. App.), 183

METHYL ISOCYANATE (624-83-9)

– Pesticide plant explosion in W. Va.

See PESTICIDES, subheading: Explosion at W. Va. plant

METHYLENE CHLORIDE (75-09-2)

– Regulatory agenda, OSHA publishes semiannual list, 388

MICHIGAN

– Automaker sophisticated user, workers' cannot sue bulk chemical suppliers (Mich. Ct. App.), 183
– Ergonomics, state OSHA approves draft rule, 60; state Senate approves bill prohibiting finalization of rule, 114
– Job safety outlook, 2009, SplRpt (1/22/09) S–25
– Violence, teachers lack standing to compel board of education to expel rather than suspend students who attacked them in classroom (Mich. Ct. App.), 162
– Whistleblowing, town wrongfully terminated employee, violated state OSH Act (Mich. Ct. App.), 83

MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (MSHA)

– Assistant secretary, industry insiders speculate on possible candidates, 391
– FY2009 appropriations

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 1105

– FY2010 budget proposal requests $353.7M, 381
– Last-minute rulemaking by Bush administration, Obama orders hold on pending regulations, 81

MINES AND MINING

– Belt entries use in ventilation, MSHA publishes flammability rule with extended implementation period, 8
– Diesel particulate filters may increase NO2 concentrations, In Brief, 99
– Emergency response, refuge alternatives for underground coal mines, final rule requires life-sustaining environment, 8
– Explosions, company sued for failure to pay fines assessed after fatal blast (E.D. Ky.), 123
– Job safety outlook, 2009, SplRpt (1/22/09) S–10
– Personnel carrier rollover due to faulty brakes injures miner, Utah coal company faces fine, 243
– Ventilation controls removed, Aracoma settles charges involving fatalities with $4.2M fine (S.D. W. Va.), 15; Aracoma pleads guilty to willful violations, making false statement, widows object to agreement, 69

MINORS

See CHILD LABOR

MISSISSIPPI

– Beryllium sensitization, aerospace materials workers show no compensable injury, suit dismissed (5th Cir.), 85
– Scaffold collapse at power plant results in fines against insulation company, 265
– Shoring system collapse at construction site leads to proposed fined for 2 contractors, 409

MISSOURI

– ARRA construction projects, OSHA launches special emphasis program, 451

MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT

– Hexavalent chromium

– – Industrial hygiene group urges NIOSH to include more comprehensive data in criteria document, 194
– – Notification, OSHA to reconsider rules (3d Cir.), 160

– Hydrogen peroxide used as sterilizer, monitoring allowed even if initial determination finds exposure not excessive, OSHA interpretation, 64
– Lead, Mass. firearms maker faces fine for violations, 66
– Nanoparticle epidemiology, NIOSH paper identifies challenges in developing studies, 199

MONTANA

– Fall from drilling rig, contractor owed employee duty of care, summary judgment denied (D. Mont.), 68

MOTOR CARRIERS

– Drivers

See DRIVERS

– Performance and Registration Information Systems Management program, GAO says potential promising, effect on driver safety difficult to measure, 407

MOTOR VEHICLES

– Oregon official cites as emphasis area in 2008, 222
– Personnel carrier rollover due to faulty brakes, Utah coal company faces fine after miner injured, 243

MSDS

See MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS (MSDS)

MSHA

See MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (MSHA)

MULTIEMPLOYER WORKSITES

– Controlling employer, general contractor may be cited for subcontractors' hazards (8th Cir.), 179; defendant seeks rehearing en banc, 288
– Job safety outlook, 2009, SplRpt (1/22/09) S–16
– Labor agreements on large-scale construction projects, Obama order promotes worker safety, officials say, 133

MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS

See ERGONOMICS

MUSEUMS

– Smithosonian Institution asbestos exposures

See EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS