An Attleboro man has been indicted on charges that he fraudulently collected more than $53,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while continuing to work. A fifty-seven year old male is charged with workers’ compensation fraud and larceny over $250.Attorney General Martha Coakley stated, “We allege the defendant collected workers’ compensation benefits…
A man was sent to the hospital with first-degree burns to his face after a propane tank exploded at a glass-bottling plant in Milford. The worker was filling up a forklift’s tank just outside Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc. plant when the propane tank exploded. The employee is in stable condition, and…
A steelworker was rushed to the hospital after falling twenty feet from the roof decking of the new high school under construction in Duxbury.Chief Kevin Nord stated that the worker was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries to his neck, back and torso. He also said that the Braintree…
A Framingham Public Works employee was Med-Flighted to a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston after he was injured by a 14 inch circular blade chop saw. The water department employee, who is in his 20s, suffered a left shoulder injury, but he was conscious and talking at the…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited J.R. Resources, a natural gas producer and operator, with eight safety and health violations at its Ringgold gas well site. OSHA began its inspection in August of 2012 after a worker died from sustaining injuries during a flash fire because…
A truck weighing approximately 140,000 pounds slid backwards and crushed the legs of a worker beneath its rear tires at a commuter rail work site. The man in his 40s works for J.F. White Contracting Co., which is currently working on the commuter rail tracks rehabilitating the Shawsheen River bridges…
A construction worker fell 30 feet off of a building in Alston, but escaped serious injury because he landed a bubble wrap, stated a Boston Fire Department spokesman. A 38 year old man lost his balance while working on a building on Commonwealth Avenue and fell through the wooden planking…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Amilicar Samper Perez, under the name Roof Systems, for alleged repeat and serious violations of workplace safety standards while its workers were installing a roof. The contractor faces a total of $44,880 in fines for fall hazards. OSHA observed…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited DeFelice, Inc for alleged willful and serious safety violations at a Nashua, N.H. work site. The contractor faces a total of $55,660 in proposed fines for excavation and other hazards. OSHA inspectors watched an employee working in an…
Norfolk Southern Railway Co. has been ordered by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to pay $1,121,099 to three workers after finding that the company violated the whistleblower provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act. Two investigations found that three employees were wrongfully fired for…