Stadium workers injured preparing for World Cup in Qatar
- Canada and other countries are under pressure to push for workers’ compensation for migrant workers at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
- Several of these workers o were involved in the construction of the seven new stadiums are reported to have died.
- Many others were injured, but little has been done to facilitate compensation.
- Amnesty International Canada to intervene in pushing for action from the country’s football governing body ahead of the World Cup.
- Workers and industry groups in Oklahoma are clamoring for improved workers’ compensation laws for first responders.
- Many of these workers struggle to deal with the trauma they suffer on the job.
- This issue came to the forefront when first responders confronted a murder-suicide and had to be given support to deal with the aftermath of the scene.
- There are renewed calls to change the law in Oklahoma so that emergency workers can get better help with post-traumatic stress disorder.
An effoer to reduce the construction death rate
- The death toll in the construction industry hasn’t changed in the past decade, and questions are being raised about what OSHA can do to reduce those fatalities.
- A recent report found that 10 out of every 100,000 workers died between 2011 and 2020, partly attributed to weak enforcement, meager inspections and fines, and the opioid epidemic.
- Funerals totaled 1,008 in 2020, the most recent data available.
- Falls and electrocutions still account for the most fatalities.
Workers injured at LAX
- Four people were injured after a carbon dioxide leak at Los Angeles International Airport caused a partial evacuation.
- Airport officials reported “an apparent gas leak” near the Terminal 8 baggage area and one of the injured workers was hospitalized in critical condition,
- The leak happened in a utility room about 200 feet away from the baggage area.
- Four independent contractors, three men and one woman, were in the utility room when they heard a “popping sound,” which was determined to be the release of carbon dioxide in the room.