Forklift fatalities and injuries are on the rise and the Industrial Truck Association is trying to do something about it. In 2011, according to the 2014 edition of Injury Facts from the National Safety Council, 66 workers died as a result of operating or worker near a forklift. A forklift was a secondary source of
Read more →Paul Giannetti A grand jury recommends changes to the New York workers’ compensation system, saying the construction industry alone cost the state $500 million in unpaid workers’ compensation premiums. Stories of employees who have committed workers’ compensation fraud often seem to surface in the media. Employers who have defrauded the system don’t seem to get
Read more →OSHA and EPA should consider revising their regulations to address ammonium nitrate, and OSHA should step up its efforts to educate the fertilizer industry about existing standards that apply to ammonium nitrate, a government watchdog agency says in a new report. The U.S. Government Accountability Office asserts that the deadly April 2013 fertilizer explosion in
Read more →The association’s Health Care Section is sponsoring the June 11 panel.
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