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Workers Cast Giant Fabric Net Over Boston Greenway
2015-05-06 18:18:15| ENR.com: Headline News
Designed by artist Janet Echelman, the giant aerial sculpture attaches to nearby high-rise buildings.
Railroad not liable for worker's heart attack death
2015-05-05 23:24:37| Railroads - Topix.net
CSX Transportation Inc. was not liable for the 2006 death of a conductor from a heart attack, a Florida appeals court has ruled, upholding a lower court ruling. Florida's First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee on Monday ruled that the lower court was correct in granting a motion for directed verdict in the case after ruling that railroads have no duty to anticipate potential medical emergencies not caused by workplace hazards.
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NY Commercial Trash Workers Testify Against Conditions
2015-05-04 04:43:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/">Capital New York</a> During a City Council debate Wednesday over free enterprise and recycling diversion rates in New York's private carting industry, members of the sanitation committee heard from a group of stakeholders who rarely voice concerns about the industry publicly: workers in the private trash trade. read more
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Lack of proper safety controls leads to loss of worker's 3 fingers in metal press at area stamping company
2015-05-01 17:36:55| Steel - Topix.net
The life of a 23-year-old man working at a metal stamping company was changed forever when three fingers on his right hand were crushed in a power press in January 2015. U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors say the incident at Wellington Stamping could have been prevented.
Slow Down, Go Around Roadside Utility Workers
2015-05-01 15:59:16| Country Lines Online
Summer travel, which lines up so neatly with utility construction and maintenance season, is just around the corner. And Joe McElroy, safety director for the Michigan Electric Cooperative Association (MECA), is bracing for the almost daily reports of heart-stopping near-misses as electric equipment operators, lineworkers, groundmen and meter readers tackle projects in the rights-of-way they […]
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