Surge in Workplace Deaths and Injuries Worries State Officials

Hawaii, which normally enjoys a far lower occupational injury and fatality rate than the national average, experienced a surge of serious workplace accidents and deaths during the first three weeks in May. The state Department of Labor & Industrial Industries issued a warning notice Tuesday, saying that it has had responded to four fatalities and five serious workplace accidents from May 2 to May 21.  Among the accidents:  On May 2 on the Big Island of Hawaii, a heavy equipment boom holding a utility pole collapsed, causing the pole to strike a worker on the gr...