Plumbers call for special session after the Texas House ended the state plumbing code and a plumbing regulation agency.

Lawmakers want to fold the board into the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, an agency that oversees more than two dozen professions.

Perchlorate is a component of rocket fuel, fireworks and some food packaging.

James B. Rogers, 33, when he was buried alive after a nearly 11-foot trench collapsed while he was trying to install a sewer pipe during the construction of a residence.

According to the OSHA video, unsafe trenching kills 40 construction workers a year.

The Labor Commissioner’s Office determined that between 2014 and 2017, RDV employed more than 1,000 workers at 35 construction sites, and typically worked their crews nine hours a day without proper rest breaks or overtime.

The lawsuit asks that the county be prohibited from implementing the program and that an individual plaintiff be awarded $500,000 or more in damages.

By preventing routine government collection of information that may be quite sensitive, OSHA is avoiding the risk that such information might be publicly disclosed. 

Employers should note that OSHA continues to operate uninterrupted during the government shutdown, having received funding from Congress last September that should take the agency through the rest of this year

Construction trade workers represented 57 percent of fatal electrical accidents.