A 45-year-old Medford postal carrier died after he collapsed while making a delivery on Friday afternoon. James Baldassarre, of Haverhill, was found lying on the ground late Friday afternoon on Riverside Avenue. He was pronounced dead at Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday morning. Baldassarre’s wife, Cathy, believed it was the…
A New Hampshire man died on Monday from injuries he sustained after he fell off of a ladder at a residential construction site. The roofer, 58, was working at a home in Rye, New Hampshire, when he slipped off the ladder and fell 30 feet. Rye Fire Lieutenant Ron Hordon…
Two workers who became trapped at the top of the Hearst Building in New York City were rescued without injury Wednesday afternoon. Rescue crews from the New York City fire department arrived around 2:40 p.m. Wednesday to help two window washers who became suspended on the 44th floor after the…
A report done by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that some of the state-run occupational safety and health organization’s programs (OSHA) have failed to meet many of the minimum requirements for workplace safety. The major issue that OSHA faces is the amount, or lack thereof, of essential staffing within…
Massachusetts workers take note; there has been a recent study conducted that sheds new light on the frequency and prevention of amputation injuries in the workplace. Amputations are one of the most severe and debilitating types of workplace injuries. A moment’s inattention or single misstep, as well as defective or…
This week the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a new initiative to help protect temporary workers from workplace injuries. The memo and plan comes after a series of reports OSHA received about temporary workers suffering serious and fatal injuries during some of the first…
Each year thousands of workers are injured in workplace incidents around the Commonwealth. Last year alone, over 50,000 workers were injured and more than 30 were killed on Massachusetts job sites. A study published by The Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health found that construction…
A report published by The Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health found there were 32 work related deaths in Massachusetts in 2012. Though the number is lower than that of 2011 (58 deaths), the organizations are calling for change at both deferral and state levels…
A Framingham, MA Public Works employee was seriously hurt in an accident with a 14-inch circular blade chop saw, said Framingham Police Lt. Ron Brandolini. The unidentified DPW water department employee, in his 20s, was working on the sewer on Woodlawn Drive when the gas-powered saw he was using kicked…
A truck weighing close to 140,000 pounds rolled or slid backwards, crushing the legs of an employee of a Stoughton, MA company. The unidentified man was working for J.F. White Contracting Co., repairing commuter rail tracks and the Shawsheen River bridges by the Lupine Road. He was attempting to attach…