Pleasant Prairie---In the eyes of a federal agency, a contractor has been cleared of any liability in a work-place fatality. An OSHA investigation into the death of 42 year-old Dennis Lanphear ended with no citations being issued, according to a U-S Labor Dept. spokesman. The Milwaukee man had been on an aerial lift inside an industry at LakeView Corp. Park in March of 2015 when he got his head caught between the guardrail structure of the lift and an overhead sprinkler pipe, according to an OSHA investigation. At the time of the accident, Lanphear had been backing up. He apparently couldn't move the lift to free himself because his foot had slipped off a control. Lanphear was employed by a contractor called Porta-Blast, which was doing work inside O-H-L, the LakeView company. No citations were issued because Lanphear had been trained and certified to run the lift, and inspection records for the machine were clean, the Labor Dept. spokesman said.
Racine---S-C Johnson continues to grow. The company says it has acquired Steris, a United Kingdom-based company that produces infection prevention and surgical procedural products and services. According to a S-C Johnson news release, the acquisition adds a full range of commercial skin care, surface cleaning products and surgical prep brands to it's "Deb Group" professional skin care portfolio. The Deb Group was acquired by S-C Johnson last year, and is the world's leader in away-from-home skincare. The group consists of 21 companies. Steris has some 14,000 employees.
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