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 […]
Category Archives: workplace injury
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 […]
A qualitative study from the Emergency Nurses Association shows that culture change and training are needed to help prevent violence against nurses. The study involved 46 emergency department nurses who wrote about their experiences with violence in the workplace. The respondents described a culture in which hospital administrators, prosecutors and judges accepted violence against nurses […]
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 […]
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 […]
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