Record Snow-Related Worker Deaths and Injuries Prompt Warnings in Massachusetts
With over 100 inches of snow falling in parts of Massachusetts in less than a month, companies have been racing to clear snow from roads and roofs, and in the process, requiring their workers to complete extremely dangerous tasks with fatal results.
Two workers died in February in Canton, Mass., and two more were hospitalized in Avon, Mass., and Burlington, Mass., in separate incidents from falls while clearing snow from roofs. Two weeks prior, 60-year-old Cesar Moya, a Whole Foods employee, was hit and killed by a snow plow that was clearing the Medford, Mass., supermarket’s parking lot.
