Since 2022, OSHA reported eight workplace fatalities in Connecticut, one this year, seven in 2022. They include including workers being crushed, pinned, falling on their heads and being buried in a collapsed trench. There were 10 workplace deaths in 2021 and seven in 2020, OSHA reports. According to a labor law expert at Eastern Connecticut State University, more could be done to keep workers safe. Any workplace injury must be reported to OSHA, but not all require an investigation. The most common of those are slips and falls, meaning companies should focus on basics such as good snow-removal plans, she said. Sometimes, however, an accident at work may be the fault of the employee or something unavoidable that occurs.
Eight workers have died on the job in CT since 2022. Here is what happened and what OSHA found.