Serious workplace safety violations led to the explosion that killed one workers and injured another at a wastewater plant in Canastota in September 2013, according to federal safety investigators. OSHA said M. Hubbard Construction, Inc. of Mottville, and a subcontractor, Joy Process Mechanical, Inc. of East Syracuse, failed to ensure safeguards and to train workers […]
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Supporters and opponents of the state Labor Law 240, also known as the Scaffold Law, came to Albany last week to engage in lobbying combat. The law specifically impacts the lives of minority contractors and workers. Scaffold Law places heavy liability on contractors and property owners for a broad class of injuries caused by falls […]
13 AT&T workers were suspended without pay for reporting workplace injuries, which has prompted a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Labor. The department filed the lawsuit against the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, which operates as AT&T, on behalf of 13 employees who received unpaid suspension after reporting work-related injuries from 2011 to 2013. “It […]
A group of college football players will file a petition to form the first official players union in the history of collegiate sports, with the help of the National Collegiate Players Association. President of the nonprofit group, Ramogi Huma, filed a petition in Chicago on behalf of the football players at Northwestern University. Huma also […]
A deck collapses behind a house in Montvale, NJ last week that left half a dozen firefighters injured. The firefighters had responded to the home on Jan Court in Montvale when the deck collapses just after 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday. The firefighters were checking out the possible chimney fire that had been reported at the […]
What is the Deadliest Industry in 2012? In 2012, construction accounted for less than 4% of total employment in New York State, but with 38 construction deaths, or 19% of the 196 occupational fatalities reported, it was the state’s deadliest industry sector in that year. Transportation, with 23 workplace fatalities, was the second most deadly […]