Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office announced last week that an agreement has been reached that will prevent an increase in rates paid by businesses for workers’ compensation insurance in Massachusetts until September of 2012. The Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (WCRIBMA), the organization that oversees workers’ compensation…
The Philadelphia retail and car service company, Pep Boys, has been charged by the US Labor Department’s OSHA with repeat and serious citations. After an inspection at the company’s Hamden, Connecticut, facility, OSHA found that workers were exposed to numerous work safety hazards, including potential electric shock due to damaged…
Paul Newcomb, a Rutland firefighter, was injured on the job while on ambulance duty. He ruptured a disc in his back when lifting a patient into an ambulance on February 2, 2010, and has since been out of work. After an operation to remove the disc and implant titanium rods…
Winter continues to be a work hazard in Massachusetts. A young man who was hired to shovel snow off of the Antico Industrial Park roofs in Waltham, fell approximately 25 feet through a skylight at 108 Clematis Avenue. The young man who is in his early twenties remains unidentified. He…
On Saturday, January 22nd, the Friends of Jim Young fundraising committee will host an event on behalf of the Young Family at the Moose Lodge in Merrimac. The committee was formed after Mr. Young was severely injured in an electrical accident while working for Georgetown Electric last September. He was…
State fire investigators revealed on December 29, 2010, that a gas explosion which killed an electrician and injured three other workers and two firefighters last July at a Norfolk condominium building could have been prevented by the company in charge of filling the tank. Workers at the site said they…
A Massachusetts state trooper sustained injuries earlier this week after being hit by a car. He was assisting a driver involved in a single-vehicle accident in Fall River and was taken to Charlton Memorial Hospital. The accident occurred on Wednesday at about 6:30am on Route 24 near the Route 79…
On Thursday evening, a state trooper suffered minor injuries after an alleged drink driver hit his cruiser. According to state police, this traffic accident marks the sixth time this year a trooper has been hit by an alleged drunk driver while in a cruiser. The trooper was headed to work…
Last month, a traffic crash near the Thomas P. O’Neill Tunnel injured a Boston police officer while he was on duty. The accident occurred around 8:41am on I-93 northbound, according to a state police spokesperson. The police offer’s injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. He was taken to Massachusetts…
According to the Star Gazette, railroad companies often ship deadly chemicals across the country on a daily basis, yet the companies refuse to publicly disclose exactly what those substances are or how frequently they are transported through certain areas. A spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) reported that only…