HANCOCK — Fatal accidents among professional snowmakers like the one that claimed the life of a woman at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort earlier this week are rare, but industry experts say the job comes with a lot of risks.
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Jan 10The Berkshire Eagle
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Oct 05Idealist.org
The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) is a nonprofit organization that builds the power of workers – both youth and adults – to lead efforts that achieve safe, healthy working conditions. MassCOSH is seeking a Youth Programs Director for its youth-led Teens Lead @ Work (TL@W) youth leadership and organizing program...
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Jun 04Boston Globe
Task force: Reopening plans don’t offer enough help for people disproportionately affected by crisis
Among the conditions it wants met is a drop in the infection rates among minority groups.By Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent,Updated June 4, 2020, 10:19 a.m.
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May 29Patriot Ledger
By Anastasia E. Lennon / The Patriot Ledger
Posted May 29, 2020 at 1:23 PMUpdated May 30, 2020 at 2:14 PM
Employer is not sanitizing workspace. Temporary employees are being transported to workplace in crowded vans. Store is not enforcing social distancing. Residents with fevers are not being tested. Paramedics are not being provided with protective... -
May 25WBUR
'We're Not Just Essential Workers, We're Human Beings': Advocates Want Slowdown Of Mass. Reopening May 25, 2020 By Simón Rios This Memorial Day, those who have died of COVID-19 are also being remembered. Lewis Elisa of the Boston Black COVID-19 coalition speaks in front of the State House during a protest to honor black people and Latinos who have died of COVID-19.
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Aug 01https://prospect.org/article/how-deregulation-led-opioid-epidemic
The opioid abuse epidemic is one of the worst public-health crises in American history. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 1999 and 2017, almost 400,000 people died in the U.S. from an overdose of either prescription or illicit opioids. In 2017 alone, opioids, more than one-third involving prescriptions, killed more than 47,000...
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Mar 06Industry Dive
Massachusetts contractors faced $2.7M in wage theft penalties in 2018
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Nov 27The Boston Globe
By Katie Johnston Globe Staff
November 27, 2017
One woman’s supervisor told her he’d give her credit for working a shift at a Charlestown bread company if she went home with him instead. When she resisted his advances, he cut her hours, according to a complaint filed with the state.
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Oct 28The Boston Globe
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City, state let contractor slip through cracks
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Two workers from Atlantic Drain died at this Dartmouth Street work site after the trench filled with water.
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Sep 22The Boston Globe
Workers’ comp agency urged to speed handling of claims
By Beth Healy GLOBE STAFF SEPTEMBER 21, 2016