Two killed in Delaware when winds knock down 120-foot-high lift
Two employees, one 22 years of age and the other 23, who were installing antennas at a Delaware worksite, died Tuesday when an elevated platform tipped over in strong winds and became tangled in electrical wires. The men fell approximately 120 feet to the ground. NBC
Target Corp. will pay more than $464,000 and agree to be monitored for compliance with federal exit access and storage hazard regulations to settle complaints about employee safety at eight stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. The agreement requires Target to allow managers to delay arrival of new inventory if there is no safe place to store it or find an alternative such as a trailer or off-site facility, among several other requirements. Salem News
Amazon employee’s lawsuit over COVID safety dismissed by judge
A federal district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit targeting Amazon over an alleged lack of COVID-19 protections at its Staten Island facility, on grounds the issues should be raised with Fed-OSHA. The plaintiffs had not made an application to Fed-OSHA, according to the judge. Erie News Now
Las Vegas hotel-casino fined $12K for social distancing violation
A Las Vegas hotel-casino and a Eureka business both were fined by Nevada OSHA over the last week for Lack of social distancing at point-of-sale terminals used by employees, and employees not wearing face coverings or not wearing face coverings properly, respectively. KTNV (Las Vegas)
Who pays when a grad student gets hurt?
When work-related accidents happen to graduate students, they can leave students recovering from significant injuries while facing huge medical bills. Interviews with students, professors, university officials, and lawyers across the US reveal that whether graduate students are considered employees, and are thus eligible for workers’ compensation, is not clear. c&en
McDonald’s franchisees dealing with COVID-19 complaints to Fed-OSHA
McDonald’s has been fending off a steady stream of pandemic-related complaints throughout the country, perhaps illustrating the challenge of having such a large franchised system with the potential for disparate safety enforcement. Restaurant Dive