Posts tagged fat

• OSHA cites Brooklyn contractor in fatal Brighton Beach building collapse

  Paul Napoli | May 27, 2012 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Federal safety regulators have found the collapse of a building under construction in Brighton Beach that killed one worker and injured four others was the result of poor construction by a...

• Construction worker dies first day on the job at Manhattan worksite

  Paul Napoli | May 19, 2012 9:07 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A construction worker on the job for only one day died Thursday after a fall from scaffolding at a worksite in SoHo. According to the NYC Department of Buildings’ active complaint, a...

• Worker crushed to death by huge roll of newsprint paper at PA printing plant

  Paul Napoli | May 18, 2012 9:44 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Federal officials are investigating after a huge roll of paper destined for a printing plant rolled off the boxcar delivering it, crushing a rail worker. The U.S. Department of Labor’s...

• CDC warns of 13 bathtub refinisher deaths tied to common paint stripping chemical

  Paul Napoli | February 28, 2012 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Federal health officials are warning that thirteen bathtub refinishing workers have died after exposure to methylene chloride, a chemical ingredient in many products used to strip bathtubs before...

• Plant mix-up prompts painkillers warning and recall of Gas-X, Excedrin, NoDoz and Bufferin

  Paul Napoli | January 10, 2012 7:09 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Pharmaceutical company Novartis Consumer Health, Inc. is warning consumers that problems at a production facility might have caused commingling of certain prescription and over-the-counter (OTC)...

• MTA was worried about rising injury rate on LIRR tunnel project before falling concrete hit a worker

  Paul Napoli | November 20, 2011 6:14 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  November 19, 2011 Officials had concerns about the increasing number of injuries on a Long Island Rail Road tunnel construction before a chunk of falling concrete killed a sandhog. ...

• Architects in Brooklyn Fatal Building Collapse may have Troubled History

  Paul Napoli | November 10, 2011 8:27 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  November 10, 2011 Just days after the collapse of a building on a Brighton Beach construction site, the New York Daily News reports that the condominium project’s architects have had trouble...

• NY Motorcyclist Protesting Helmet Law Wrecks and Dies of Traumatic Brain Injury

  Paul Napoli | July 04, 2011 2:26 PM | 3 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  July 3, 2011 A motorcycle rider participating in an event in Onondaga, NY to protest New York State’s mandatory helmet law has wrecked and died of a traumatic brain injury doctors say was...

• Massey Energy Disregarded Mine Safety, Faked Records, Could Have Prevented Death of 29 Miners

  Paul Napoli | June 30, 2011 1:13 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  June 29, 2011 A government investigation has found that Massey Energy Company had a history of disregarding safety practices at its West Virginia mine, including failure to fix broken safety...

• Unheard and Ignored Hospital Patient Alarms Lead to Unnecessary Deaths

  Paul Napoli | February 20, 2011 12:17 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  February 18, 2011 A news investigation has found that hundreds of patients have died in hospitals when the alarm on their monitoring equipment went unheard or unheeded. Hospitals use a number of...