City of Roswell facing $637,311 fine after worker death


by KRQE News 13

KRQE News 13— ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Environment Department is issuing a fine against the City of Roswell after a city utility worker died from an injury. The incident happened in October 2023. City workers were repairing a leaking water main in a trench when the walls of the trench caved in and trapped the worker, the []

Phys.org—The academic sleuth facing death threats and ingratitude. Lonni Besançon devotes evenings and weekends to rarely appreciated sanitation work. By examining scientific articles after they are published and exposing shortcomings, he has made himself an enemy of both researchers and publishers. It has gone so far that death threats have become commonplace for him.

DutchNews.nl—PostNL faces €24 million fine in Belgium over subcontractors. The Belgian public prosecution department is demanding PostNL pay a €24 million fine for failing to deal properly with subcontractors’ staff, the Telegraaf said on Thursday. Although they are not officially PostNL workers, the company treated them as such and had the most say about the way they worked, the Belgian authorities say. The case, currently being heard in Antwerp, centres on the PostNL Cargo and PostNL Pakketten units, and the contract they had agreed with 220 subcontractors. Both...

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