Click here for a PDF of: An Act providing benefits for permanent functional loss and disfigurement under the Workers Compensation Act. On May 7, 2012, Sylbert Stewart was working on metal plating when he fell into a vat of chemicals at the Belmont factory where he worked for 14 years.
Retail Store Homicides Highlight Risks Facing Teen Workers; 200,000 Sexual Assaults Each Year David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, said today that teen peer education programs are an effective way to reduce and prevent the hazards of workplace violence.
I WAS saddened to read about the Vermont floor worker who suffered severe burns when the solvent he was using on a laundromat floor burst into flames, reportedly heated by a nearby dryer (Worker hurt in dryer-sparked blaze, New England in brief, June 9).
Click here to view the 2014 Dying for Work in Massachusetts: The Loss of Life and Limb in Massachusetts Workplaces
NEW BEDFORD The death of seafood worker Victor Gerena could have been prevented had Sea Watch International followed safety protocol, according to his mother Ada Garcia. And now, she said, five kids are without a father.
Federal officials are investigating the violent death of a man caught in machinery Thursday while working the night shift at a seafood-processing plant in New Bedford. Victor Gerena, 35, was cleaning a shellfish-shucking machine at Sea Watch International around 1:30 a.m.
This past January, as most of New Bedford slept, Vctor Gerena was working the night shift for Sea Watch International Seafood, one of the largest clam processing plants in Massachusetts and the nation.
Click here for media coverage. On October 22, 2013, authorities found the body of 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer behind the school she worked for as a teacher in Danvers, MA. A victim of workplace homicide, Ritzer became the 40th worker to be killed on the job in 2013.
A victim of workplace homicide, Ritzer became the 40th worker to be killed on the job in 2013. By the end of the year, eight more workers would lose their lives, bringing the total killed to 48.
Directly on the heels of a worker death in central Massachusetts , yet another life was tragically lost on the job just hours later in Nantucket from a fall.
The recent worker death of 46-year-old Nancy Woods of Rutland, is sad and tragic; however it was not a freak accident said the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) in a statement released today.
An Advisory Committee created by Governor Deval Patrick to study state work-place risks and dangers released a landmark report (click to view) with key recommendations to reduce injury, illness and deaths for the Commonwealths Executive Branch employees.
An Advisory Committee created by Governor Deval Patrick to study state work-place risks and dangers released a landmark report (click to view) with key recommendations to reduce injury, illness and deaths for the Commonwealths Executive Branch employees.
With state data showing Massachusetts teens average over 700 work-related emergency room visits each year, Boston teens and state officials working to change these statistics announced the winners of the statewide 4th annual Safe Jobs for Youth poster contest today at the Massachusetts State House.
Before a standing room only crowd, the Boston Zero Waste Task Force, a multi-stakeholder group made up of labor and business leaders, community and neighborhood groups, Zero Waste and recycling experts, and environmental and social justice advocates, held a briefing at City Hall today to release a set of recommendat...
