Four employees suffered work injuries in Middleton that resulted in an inspection from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and roughly 50 safety violations against the company, Bostik Inc. The manufacturer of adhesives now faces more than $900,000 in proposed fines from OSHA. The work accident happened back in…
Our Boston workers’ compensation attorneys at Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers have been closely examining the details of the summary provided by Bureau of Labor Statistics on the 2010 Census of Workplace Fatalities. Fatal injuries at work in 2010 occurred at a rate of 3.5 per 100,000 full-time (or equivalent to…
Fatal work injuries in Massachusetts for 2010 were reportedly down when compared to 2009, but the final numbers won’t be posted until Spring of 2012. Preliminary results generally increase by 3 percent when the final report comes out, or at least they have each of the last three years. According…
Stowe Woodward LLC has been cited with nearly 20 violations from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for failing to prevent work injuries in New England at its Concord Plant. The company refurbishes large metal rolls for the paper industry. Safety violations have caused the company…
Nations Roof LLC and Nations Roof of New England LLC have reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor resolving a number of penalties and citations that were the result of discovered hazards at one of its work sites. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Nations Roof LLC,…
Workplace violence ranks as the second most common cause of work-related injury and death in the United States after automobile accidents. Massachusetts workplace violence was the third most common cause of death and injury in 2010. About a dozen workers were either assaulted or the victim of a violent attack…
A Hazard Alert was recently issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The work-safety watchdog released a wallet-sized informational card that is being used to warn employees who work inside grain bins about the risks of work-related accidents in Massachusetts and elsewhere as harvest season approaches. Workers who…
Residents of Puerto Rico are working on recovering from some of the damage that was recently caused by Hurricane Irene. Areas of Massachusetts also experienced flooding or other damage. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is taking time to ask that all workers and residents be safe when they’re cleaning…
Heat is still a major contributor to work injuries in Massachusetts. Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration released a new downloadable, mobile device application that lets employees and employers monitor the current weather conditions, more specifically the head index, at a number of local work sites. This way, workers…
Union Pacific Railroad Company has recently been ordered by the Department of Labor to pay out more than $615,000 to three of its employees. The payout is a result of an investigation that determined that the company neglected to abide by the wistleblowers protection provisions that have been set forth…