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:: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 ::
Job-site fatalities prompt OSHA outreach By Martin B. Cassidy, Greenwich Time, CT
Between Oct. 1 and June 23, the Bridgeport OSHA office investigated 20 accidents in Fairfield, New Haven and Middlesex counties, six of them fatal, said John Chavez, a spokesperson for the OSHA's Boston office. For the same period statewide, the agency investigated 31 accidents with serious injuries statewide, 13 of them being fatal.
The Bridgeport office usually averages about four or five accidents each year that Kowalski terms 'catastrophic,' meaning there were fatalities or three or more people were injured in a single incident.
In response to the recent increase in fatalities, the office is putting more focus on education and prevention of falls, he said.
'Regrettably, there are a lot of falls where people are sustaining injuries,' Kowalski said. 'Normally, the accidents occur because there was a lack of safety equipment.'------------------------------------------- posted 6:00 AM :: reference link ::
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