New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo called on federal officials to strengthen regulations for rail safety following frequent derailments carrying crude oil over the last year. “I am deeply troubled by the pattern of incidents involving the rail transportation of crude oil, from major accidents in 2013 to two minor derailments in New York this week,” […]
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OSHA has issued its annual inspection plan under the Site-Specific Targeting 2014 program to ensure workplaces with high rates of injury and illness are enforcing resources to protect their workers. The SST program is one of OSHA’s main programmed inspection plans for high-hazard, non construction workplaces that have 20 or more workers. The SST plan […]
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The MTA has announced a series of initiatives to improve safety throughout its operations by strengthening reporting responsibilities and emphasizing on management oversight and installing. The position of Chief Safety Officer will be created. It is a new senior management position to ensure that safety becomes a top priority throughout MTA operations. A new Safety […]
Eight construction workers were seriously injured last month when they fell from the third floor of a Brooklyn building. The workers were seriously injured while working on a decrepit Brooklyn building. The men fell from the third floor to the first floor on 1916 Prospect Place, according to Fire Department officials. One neighbor says that […]
In February, servers and other workers at Legal Sea Foods restaurant on Long Island began to worry when their manager disappeared for several hours. Co-workers searched the restaurant for the manager and when assistant manager, Megan Smith passed out during the search, the workers knew something was not right. Right before she passed out, Megan […]
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According to a former worker of Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island, the hospital was more concerned about the bottom line than its workers’ health after he was allegedly fired for complaining about asbestos exposure. James Pepe, 33, says supervisors and hospital officials repeatedly denied his requests for protective great, claiming it would “cost […]
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Andrew Finkelstein discussed the issue of non-lawyer ownership of law firms in the U.S. One of the core elements that is broken is the ownership opportunities within law firms and their ability to partner with non-lawyers. Mr. Finkelstein discussed his attempt to break down these barriers by challenging the law in order to promote innovation. […]
Fracking has triggered an oil boom in North Dakota! The new technology has made vast reserves of oil previously locked up in the state’s Bakken shale formations accessible to drillers. However, there aren’t enough pipelines in the region to transport this immense quantity of oil to other states to be refined into gasoline. Instead, companies […]
In Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to improve pedestrian safety and prevent traffic fatalities, one of his goals is to shut off the taxi meter in the middle of a fare if the driver is speeding. Taxi drivers have responded to this plan rather negatively. Taxi drivers have been at the center of the debate […]
The decision has been made to add to the list of coverage that will treat people who have been exposed to dust and fumes at Ground Zero. This decision reflects growing evidence of a link between those cancers and exposure to toxins released on September 11, 2011 at the Ground Zero site. The expansion of […]