A New Bedford-based manufacturer of rubber products has been cited by OSHA for 34 alleged safety and health violations at its plant. An inspection last November found mechanical, electrical, fall, burn and other safety hazards at the plant. The company now faces $44,250 in proposed fines for violating health and…
The Boston Globe reports that a North Andover resident is now one of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) most wanted fugitives. Albania Deleon, 39, ran the largest asbestos removal training school in New England from 2001 to 2007. However, federal officials discovered that Deleon was granting fraudulent certificates…
On Friday afternoon, a construction accident in downtown Calgary killed a construction worker who was working as a rigger on the 21st floor. Early reports stated that the 27-year-old worker fell 10 storeys, but a Calgary policeman said he was crushed when 1,800 kilograms of building materials slipped out of…
Although the US Attorney’s Office dropped all 10 charges relating to the 2006 accident that killed a Jamaica Plain woman as she drove through the Big Dig construction project, Modern Continental Corp., the largest Big Dig contractor, still faces 39 federal charges of overbilling and construction defects on the project.…
A Fall River man who works for the Department of Public Works was critically injured after falling off the back of a truck. According to accident reports, the garbage truck was on its usual pick-up route when the worker fell and hit his head. The workplace accident occurred on Nichols…
In April, an electrical worker was involved in a rooftop accident at Melrose’s Oak Grove Village. Police received a 911 call around 11:20am on Tuesday, April 14 reporting a possibly electrocution. Chad O’Clair, the twentysomething worker who was hit with 220 volts, was taken by ambulance to Massachusetts General Hospital…
In Suffolk Superior Court, a 39-year-old man pled guilty to workers’ compensation fraud, 23 counts of unemployment fraud, and two counts of larceny over $250. Rigoberto Tellez was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $14,398. Tellez suffered injuries after he fell at…
In Gloucester, Massachusetts, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will lead an all-day safety training workshop this Thursday, April 23. The workplace safety seminar is presented by the Contractor’s Division of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and leads to the awarding of an OSHA 10 Certificate, which is a…
A Massachusetts construction company has been issued $60,000 in proposed fines for allegedly failing to provide cave-in protection for workers at an excavation site in Taunton. Inspectors from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration drove by the site on October 28, 2008 and noticed employees installing a drain line in…
The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced a safety partnership with the Burlington-based construction company Erland Construction. The goal of the partnership is to maximize worker safety and health at the Covidien West Street construction project in Mansfield, Massachusetts. According to Brenda Gordon, OSHA’s…