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From OSHA QuickTakes: Verizon NY Agrees to Provide Enhanced Safety Training
Please see the article below from OSHA QuickTakes highlighting the U.S. Department of Labor's settlement agreement with Verizon in the September, 2011 electrocution/fatality case of Local 1109 member Doug Lalima. CWA's Occupational Safety and Health Department will be working with District 1 to ensure the provisions in the settlement agreement are adhered to and expanded throughout the U.S.
Verizon New York Agrees to Provide Enhanced Electrial Safety Training to Field Technicians
The Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with Verizon New York Inc. that requires the telecommunications company to provide enhanced electrical safety training and other safeguards to its New York field technicians, and pay $147,000 in fines. In March 2012, OSHA issued citations in connection with the fatal September 2011 electrocution of a field technician in Brooklyn.