Federal safety officials on Thursday cited and fined Eversource for five workplace safety standards violations stemming from a fatal arc flash and arc blast that occurred this summer outside the State House and McCormack office building.
Outgoing Gov. Charlie Baker’s mark on the Department of Industrial Accidents is poised to carry on for more than six years, after the governor last week issued 10 nominations for quasi-judicial boards that hear worker’s compensation cases.
The second construction worker in just over two months was killed on a Boston job site Thursday morning.
More than a few contractors have likely been breathing a sigh of relief after plans to dramatically boost the fines OSHA can dole out for safety violations has landed in legislative limbo.
President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant that is killing thousands each week and jeopardizing the nation’s economic recovery.
Poor sleep causes symptoms similar to alcohol use, like impaired memory, motor skills and decision-making and hurts a company’s bottom line.
Say hello to Vinnie, an emerging soothsayer star of the construction industry. Arriving as soon as this fall, he will be able to predict when construction industry workers are about to engage in particularly risky behavior that may lead to serious work site injuries.
A worker at an MIT construction site on Cambridge’s Vassar Street was killed in an “industrial accident” Thursday, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s office said in a statement.
The Essex district attorney’s office said he was working on the roof of a nine-story building in Haverhill Tuesday morning when he fell.
Workplace safety watchdog OSHA has long been the federal agency that businesspeople have loved to gripe about, especially in the construction business.
