A Delaware railcar repair company already facing a $551,226 federal fine stemming from a worker’s death, faces new safety violation allegations and a proposed $371,276 penalty.

There could be fewer workplace safety inspections in fiscal year 2020 because of an influx of new, inexperienced inspectors and attrition of veteran ones, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said.

Delaware wants the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review an EPA final rule relaxing safety requirements for chemical plants that took effect Dec. 19.

California farmers would have to start lighting up their orchards, vineyards and other fields at night when workers are performing harvesting or other work, according to a proposed first-in-the-nation rule.

U.S. workplaces have gotten a lot safer over the course of the past century. In 1913, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that there were 23,000 “industrial deaths,” or 61 for every 100,000 workers. In 2018, the number of what are now called “occupational fatalities” was 5,250, according to a BLS survey much more exhaustive than its 1913 precursor, or 3.5 for every 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.

Delta Air Lines Inc. must face a proposed class action by Northwest Airlines retirees who say the company shortchanges their pensions to account for settlements they received after sustaining work-related injuries, according to a ruling by a federal judge in Minnesota.