The report, The State of Employee Safety in 2023, also looks at different aspects of worker health and safety, including mental health and emergencies.
The state plan covers nearly 80,000 state and local government workers in Maine.
In July 2022, an eight-foot-deep trench collapsed, killing a worker.
The employee was terminated after raising concerns about conditions at a childcare facility.
Under the MoU, the organizations will work on education programs together.
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The estimate is only down slightly from the actual number of lives lost in 2021.
The grain-handling company was also issued citations for 16 violations—including two willful—following the September 2022 incident.
Blocked exit routes and unsafely stacked boxes and merchandise were among the violations the company received citations for.
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Did you know that more than 22,000 people across the U.S. are injured while using ladders each year? And, unfortunately, 161 people suffered a fatal injury from a ladder in 2020. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 65% of those ladder fatalities came from movable ladders.