Saturday, August 25, 2012
The training improved firefighters technical rescue skills, which they've been called upon to use on occasion.
The Somerville Fire Department Wednesday conducted special training with Massachusetts Bay Commuter Rail employees at the Commuter Rail's maintenance facility in Somerville, according to an announcement from the Fire Department. The drill involved rescuing a mock victim from a confined space 15 feet below the locomotive repair area, the announcement says. Firefighters and Commuter Rail employees worked together to rescue the victim. The training provided a realistic rescue scenario, allowing firefighters to improve their technical rescue skills, the announcement says. Rescuing victims from strange and difficult spaces is not uncommon for Somerville firefighters. In April, firefighters rescued a man who was trapped in a paper silo in the …
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Friday, May 25, 2012
The Somerville Board of Aldermen doesn't want an oil company to ship ethanol through the city on Commuter Rail lines.
The Somerville Board of Aldermen want to prevent an oil company from shipping 187 million gallons of ethanol through the city each year on Commuter Rail lines, according to proceedings from a Board of Aldermen meeting. Global Oil in Revere wants to use freight trains to ship the ethanol to its facilities, and those trains could come right through Somervile, aldermen said. At their Thursday night meeting, the aldermen passed a resolution opposing those plans. In doing so, Somerville has joined the cities of Chelsea and Revere, and the town of Shirley, in opposition to the ethanol freight trains. Speaking in support of the resolution, Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz, a member of the public health and public safety committee that reviewed the…
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, has imposed $130,800 in fines for 22 alleged workplace safety violations.
Update 10 a.m.: Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad issues statement in response to OSHA citations. See Below. Saying workers were exposed to potential electric shocks, chemical burns, amputation and bloodborne pathogens, to name a few things, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, has cited the Commuter Rail maintenance facility in Somerville with 22 alleged "serious" violations of workplace safety. The Commuter Rail maintenance facility is located in the Inner Belt area of East Somerville, between McGrath Highway and Interstate 93, near the border of Cambridge and Charlestown. According to a press release sent by the U.S. Department of Labor, of which OSHA is a part, the safety administration "found employees in the …
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