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The U.S. Department Labor recently issued a scathing report critical of Nevada's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The department of labor looked into Nevada OHSA's handling of 25 work accidents involving fatalities, and found the agency did not properly investigate the workplace accidents or levy the appropriate penalties. Problems with the Nevada OSHA offices ranged from inadequate methods of internal communication to an office-wide policy, in essence, to not issue violations for "willfull" violations of OSHA standards. In half of the cases examined, Nevada OSHA did not tell the family of the worker killed in a construction accident that there was an investigation. This failure violated Nevada law. These findings do not come as a surprise to Atlanta workers compensation attorneys or to lawyers who represent those who have been the victim of a Georgia work injury cases

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A West Virginia construction worker was needlessly killed recently while performing ground operations during the costruction of a strip-mall in West Virginia.

The project's general contractor, Agsten Construction Co., employed the worker. The worker injured in the workplace accident was a carpenter when a 35-foot-long, 500-pound joist suspended by straps on a crane fell because the straps failed. The straps may not have been properly secured to the joist mechanism, which may have caused the strap failure.

Crane accidents are responsible for thousands of injuries and deaths every year, and are the one of the leading types of construction accidents which lead to worker injury.

The crane subcontractor, Kanawha Valley Construction and Erection Co. Inc. was cited for "serious" violations, including exposing employees to being struck or crushed by a falling bar joist, failure to remove from service a severely frayed sling used to lift bar joists, and failure to use padding that would prohibit a sling from easily being cut by a sharp bar joist edge. OSHA proposed a total of $4,000 in penalties.

Victims of construction accidents may be able to recover under workers compensation, and also might have claims against other culpable third parties. If you have been injured on the job, contact Jonah Flynn, a Georgia workplace accident attorney, to learn about your rights.