A young, immigrant and undocumented worker in an above-average injury job is not a situation anyone would prefer to be in.
A recent report zeros in on some of these workers. This month, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the American Society for Safety Engineers published a report on construction injury risks. The title, Overlapping Vulnerabilities, refers to overlapping risks of young immigrants working in small construction firms.
The vast majority of immigrant construction workers in the U.S. are Hispanic, with most of them of Mexican origin. An addi...
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