A Logan Airport construction worker was awarded $3 million in a settlement with his employer and the general contractor for the airport, after he suffered debilitating injuries from an incident in 2008. The 37-year-old man had fallen nearly 35 feet through an unprotected opening on the arrival/departure ramp at Logan…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is collaborating with the National Association of Tower Erectors and other industry stakeholders to ensure that communication tower employers understand their responsibility to protect workers in high-hazard work environments. This comes in response to a series of tragic fatalities last…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Wakefield, MA excavation and utilities contractor Joseph P. Cardillo & Son Inc. for willful and serious violations of excavation safety standards at a Milton, MA worksite. Cardillo is subject to almost $145,000 in proposed fines following an inspection by…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited the Packaging Corporation of America for two repeat violations of workplace safety standards following an inspection of the company’s Chelmsford, MA manufacturing plant. The company is now facing up to $66,000 in potential fines. OSHA spokesperson Jeffrey…
A long-time employee of the town of Natick was killed and a second town employee was injured Tuesday night while making emergency repairs to a water line. According to reports, six members of the Department of Public Works went to repair a water line break. Two of the employees on…
In August 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration filed a petition for a new rule that would reduce the instance of chronic respiratory illness and cancer among U.S. workers, by putting limits on the amount of crystalline silica a worker can legally be exposed to.…
If you are a hospital worker who was injured on the job, you should speak to a Massachusetts workers’ compensation law firm. Depending on the nature of the job, a hospital worker may be at risk of serious injuries from slip and fall accidents, lifting and transferring patients, infectious diseases…
New Bedford officials have reported that a 35-year-man was the victim of a fatal work incident involving a shucking machine at a seafood processing plant on Thursday. The man was apparently doing a routine cleaning of the machine when he became entangled in the machine’s rotary turbine engine. Rescue crews…
The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced this week that it has planned to extend the comment period through March 8, 2014 on the proposed rule to improve workplace safety through the development of enhanced tracking of reported workplace injuries and illnesses. The period was extended by 30…
NStar and state authorities are investigating a gas explosion in Shrewsbury that injured a gas worker. A spokesman for NStar said that the gas explosion destroyed a backhoe, and caused nearly 150 nearby gas customers to lose service for hours. One worker was treated for a burn injury as a…