A bluff at the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant collapsed Monday, causing construction trailers and equipment to slide toward Lake Michigan.

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The Daily Reporter's weekly digest of companies that have been cited for OSHA violations.

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OSHA reports • JLCF Contractors, Brookfield, must pay a $2,400 head-protection citation, a $2,400 eye-and-face-protection citation and a $4,200 fall-protection citation because the period to contest the violations has ended. The company was issued the citations Dec. 9 during a ...

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By Joe Lanane Milwaukee County is selling itself short in a three-way land swap with Oak Creek and Northwestern Mutual Investment Services LLC, according to Supervisor Joe Sanfelippo. “From a purely financial standpoint there is no way what we’re getting ...

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By Joe Lanane Northwestern Mutual Investment Services LLC, Milwaukee, is leaving its comfort zone by trying to acquire land in a three-property swap across from the firm’s Franklin campus. But the step into the unfamiliar could assure the company it ...

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By Joe Lanane The first waves of dirt deliveries are rolling into Oak Creek from the Mitchell Interchange reconstruction on Interstate 94 to cap contaminated soil on the city’s lakefront. The deliveries and the 800,000 cubic yards of clean fill ...

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By Joe Lanane Economics will decide whether Oak Creek relocates residents or cleans the contaminated site of a proposed city flood plain in order to make way for a road expansion. A $6 million expansion of West Drexel Avenue is ...

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After more than five decades of service, Oak Creek’s first fire station will be replaced by a new $3 million building. The $3 million price tag is a small price to pay for the long-overdue replacement station, said Oak Creek ...

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OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle has announced $20 million in state tax credits to help South Milwaukee-based Bucyrus International Inc. expand its operations. The Democratic governor said Tuesday the assistance would help create 515 jobs in the ...

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OSHA reports • G&R Exteriors LLC, New Berlin, must pay a $1,500 fall-protection citation because the period to contest the violation has ended. The company was issued the citation Aug. 11 during a roofing job at 100 Corrina Blvd., Waukesha. ...

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