Many schools around Boston have trophy cases full or winning teams and record-breaking athletes. Yet these schools are now also home to equally deserving champions who are fighting to help staff and students with asthma breath with ease.
When an injured worker meets with MassCOSH’s Worker Center staff for the first time, their stories and background may vary, but their primary concerns are always the same: ‘Due to work, I am hurt, can’t receive the care I need, and am going broke.’ Hurt on the job and suffering from untreated and undertreated slippe...
As federal inspectors investigate an elevator fall at an Assembly Square construction project that killed one worker and injured another last week, construction officials say they met all safety standards at the site.
Fact Sheet: An Act Increasing Injured Workers Access to Medical Care and Workers Compensation Benefits (HB1684) Lead sponsors: Rep. Garrett Bradley, Senator James Eldridge Background: Workers compensation is a lifeline for workers who suffer a workplace injury or illness.
On July 23, 2014, Jason Faria, a 26-year-old Fall River native was working for Diaz Construction Co., a concrete company, on top of a concrete form that was incorrectly attached. The form came loose and fell, crushing him underneath.
A top-to-bottom review ordered by Gov. Charlie Baker of the state's maze of regulations continues to generate pushback from a number of outside groups despite the administration's attempts to ease their concerns.
By Justine Hofherr @Jhofherr29 Boston.com Staff | 04.10.15 | 2:37 PMSylbert Stewart lives in a state of constant pain. If he were asked to rate his agony on a scale of one to 10, he says it would be well past 11. Day-to-day life is very hard, Stewart said. I cant walk down the stairs.
Why Workers Wont Unite GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY HAVE GUTTED THE LABOR MOVEMENT, AND PART-TIME WORK IS SABOTAGING SOLIDARITY. IS THERE A NEW WAY TO CHALLENGE THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY?
A Broken Compensation System Is Leaving the Most Vulnerable Workers in Pain By Michelle Chen In the toughest industries, the cardinal rule of prevention, safety first, often gets papered over by an unspoken law of the workplace: the most dangerous jobs are done by those who cant afford safety.
With the latest state data showing that from 2007-2011, Massachusetts teens under the age of 18 required 2,291 Emergency Department visits for work-related injuries, teen labor leaders and state officials announced the winners of the statewide 5th annual Safe Jobs for Youth poster contest March 12, at the Massachuse...
At the time of their accidents, Jeremy Lewis was 27, Josh Potter 25. The men lived within 75 miles of each other. Both were married with two children about the same age. Both even had tattoos of their children's names.
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Some call it a grand bargain in the American workplace - if you're injured on the job, you're supposed to get guaranteed medical care and money to live on. Employers and their insurance companies pay for that and in return employers don't get sued for workplace accidents.
With over 100 inches of snow falling in parts of Massachusetts in less than a month, companies and officals have been racing to clear snow from roads and roofs, and in the process, requiring their workers to complete extremely dangerous tasks with fatal results.
2/24/2015 BOSTON With over 100 inches of snow falling in parts of Massachusetts in less than a month, companies and officals have been racing to clear snow from roads and roofs, and in the process, requiring their workers to complete extremely dangerous tasks with fatal results.
MassCOSH Teens Lead @ Work (TL@W) peer leader Tiana Golding has seen the data and knows that young people suffer higher rates of injury on the job than adults.
