On-the-job deaths in Massachusetts reached a 10-year high in 2016, with about 40 percent of the fatalities related to the construction industry, according to the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health. The fatality comes just two weeks after a March 21 accident in which two workers were injured after falling from a temporary stair scaffolding on the construction site of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex in Allston. They involve accidents in which an employee was struck by an excavator bucket, a worker sustained injuries after falling down a shaft, and an employee was injured after the scissor lift he was working from tipped over, according to the agency. OSHA has conducted four prior inspections of subcontractors on the Wynn site, three of which are still active. to determine whether there were any workplace safety or health standard violations, spokesman Ted Fitzgerald said. OSHA has officially opened inspections of Suffolk Construction and J.
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