Oregon OSHA Cites Cirque du Soleil in Performer Injury
- Acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil has been fined by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a performer was seriously injured in a summer performance.
- The Canada-based troupe is reportedly seeking to reach a possible settlement in the case stemming from an August incident where an aerialist suffered multiple fractures in a 15-foot fall from a hoop during a performance of a show.
- Cirque failed to provide adequate safeguards for its performers, according to the Oregon OSHA report, which handed down an $8,070 fine.
- Four employees have died in the company’s history, and Cirque du Soleil Nevada Newco has been investigated by OSHA agencies in Florida and Nevada in recent years.
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NSC Rolls Out Workplace Overdose Program
- The National Safety Council (NSC) has rolled out its Respond Ready Workplace program focusing on three strategies for addressing workplace overdoses, as several states have recently enacted workplace naloxone legislation.
- That comes as Michigan recently made opioid overdose-reversal medication like naloxone accessible in state workplaces when training on use and administration is available.
- NSC said that overdoses account for nearly one in 10 worker deaths on the job nationally and have increased by more than 600% since 2011.
- The NSC called the new law “a step towards saving lives on the job,” as tens of thousands of people are employed by the state of Michigan.
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