Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/osha/)
The new audit determined that Kentucky has either resolved or made progress toward addressing all of the findings from the previous year, but improvements are still underway in fatality investigations.
Mike and Pam Oakley have been talking for years about how Kentucky’s worker safety agency failed their 17-year-old son. State officials never listened. They’re listening now.
The acting Labor Secretary wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in the Lexington newspaper that the “hard work of turning the program around is well underway.”
Thursday’s death of a 19-year-old construction worker in a trench cave-in in south Louisville serves as yet another reminder of the dangers of doing utility work in deep holes. See just how many workers are injured and killed each year.