OSHA issues warning on fireworks

OSHA as Independence Day approaches is urging employers and workers in fireworks-related industries to head off serious hazards in manufacturing, storing, transporting, displaying and selling fireworks for public events. The agency issued a release Monday (June 29) noting that last summer one worker was killed and another critically injured in an explosion and fire at a fireworks storage facility in Kansas. Two employees “were directed to use a gas-powered forklift to move pallets of fireworks and cardboard out of an...