Workplace insurers are familiar with paying out billions of dollars each year to employees hurt in major accidents, such as being mangled by machines or building collapses. But now, the newest fast-growing cost has become payments to workers with routine injuries who have been treated with strong painkillers, such as…
In Tucker County, West Virginia, four county employees have filed a lawsuit against G.A. Brown & Sons construction company claiming that work done by the company in the Tucker County Courthouse dispersed toxic dust that caused the death of one employee of the assessor’s office, Virginia Wamsley, and potentially harmed…
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics‘ most recent study, there were 4,547 occupational injury fatalities in 2010. The majority of these injuries occur in only a handful of occupations that are the most dangerous ways to earn a living in the United States. Certain jobs carry an underlying danger that can reach…
The car accident occurred on February 20, 2011 on River Street in Haverhill. Aaron Deveau, then seventeen, crossed the centerline and smashed head-on into Donald Bowley’s car, carrying him and Luz Roman, the sole passenger. Luz Roman, Bowley’s girlfriend, suffered from collapsed lungs, broke all of her ribs and her pelvis and…
Seventy one year old, Marie Stewart, was killed after a Massachusetts Water Resources Authority pickup truck struck her as she entered a crosswalk near George Keverian Elementary School. The risks crossing guards take each day to ensure street safety often go unnoticed. In the past decade, two crossing guards have…
American International Group (AIG) agreed to pay state regulators $100 million in fines and $46.4 million in premium taxes and assessments. The company is guilty of misreporting workers’ compensation premiums from 1985 to 1996, hiding at least $2.12 billion, by attributing it to other lines of insurance and thereby lowering…
A Middleton, Massachusetts adhesives manufacturer has settled litigation related to a number of safety violation citations issued by the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) following a March 2011 workplace explosion. In September 2011, Bostik Inc. received $917,000 in proposed penalties for 50 safety violations…
In early May, the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued citations to a Lancaster, Massachusetts packaging manufacturer for 12 alleged willful and serious safety violations. OSHA issued the citations after an investigation of Horn Packaging Corporation following an employee death in a workplace accident…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an arm of the United States Department of Labor, has cited a Massachusetts-based stone fabricator $47,600 in proposed fines for serious and repeat violations at a Connecticut facility. OSHA inspected International Stone Inc.’s Ansonia granite and marble fabrication site following a safety complaint.…
The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has filed a complaint against Tewksbury, Massachusetts-based DeMoulas Super Markets for fall and laceration hazards at the company’s chain of Market Basket stores. The Boston Regional Solicitor’s Office also requested enterprisewide relief against the grocery chain after an…