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Tar Heel State’s Workplace Injury and Illness Rate Drops to a Historic Low
New figures show North Carolina’s nonfatal workplace injury and illness rate for private industry declined to a historic low in 2017.
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Big Four Hazards in Construction
The OSH Division has identified four hazards that cause 80 percent of workplace accidents
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Escalator Safety Tips
About 90 percent of all escalator incidents involve senior citizens or small children
Escalator Safety TipsMeet Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry
The labor commissioner is a constitutional officer elected statewide by the people of North Carolina to serve a four-year term running concurrently with the governor and all other members of the Council of State. On Nov. 8, 2016, Cherie Berry became the first labor commissioner in the history of the state to be elected to a fifth four-year term.
