OSHA reports •    Affordable Quality and Excellence, Wauwatosa, reached a formal settlement with OSHA on March 30 to pay a $2,000 scaffolding-training citation, a $1,400 general-safety-and-health-provisions citation and 10 scaffolding citations, totaling $17,000. The company was issued the citations July ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Dorner Inc.’s low bid for an Oconomowoc utility project is testing the subjectivity of a city safety review that determines if a contractor is qualified. Oconomowoc established the review after Dorner crews in April 2008 moved a ...

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Newport, Minn., neighbors can’t figure out shaking houses Newport, MN (AP) — Owners of several homes in the St. Paul suburb of Newport say their houses regularly shake — and no one can figure out why. Homeowner Crystal Oswald said ...

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EEOC: California company mistreated Wisconsin disabled man Milwaukee (AP) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against a manufacturer for allegedly discriminating against a disabled employee at its plant in Oconomowoc. The EEOC said Tuesday that ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com A lawsuit over a gas pipeline explosion in Oconomowoc seeks to assign blame and penalties, while industry leaders search for ways to prevent such accidents. A company that insured two homes destroyed in the April 2008 blast ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com If the insurance company’s lawsuit fails, the man who rented an Oconomowoc home that blew up in an April 2008 gas explosion says he will take on Dorner Inc. himself. “Even if it’s only $10,000 or $5,000, ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com It seemed the contractor was to blame. At least that’s where the evidence pointed when the Office of Pipeline Safety received a report about a gas line that was ruptured during an excavation project, said Walt Kelly, ...

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