A northern Wisconsin wood processor where a 16-year-old died after an industrial accident in June 2023 was one of 12 employers listed for egregious workplace hazards by a national advocacy group Thursday. The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) put Florence Hardwoods on its 2024 “Dirty Dozen” list of “unsafe and reckless employers […] The post Work safety advocates list Wisconsin lumber mill where teen died among ‘unsafe’ employers appeared first on Wisconsin Examiner.
Nearly 10,000 people died of COVID-19 last month, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday, noting the rising danger of the virus nearly four years after the pandemic’s onset. Citing holiday gatherings and cooler weather, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that in December, COVID hospitalizations increased by 42 percent in nearly 50 countries, mostly in…
The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000 deaths were reported in December, while hospital admissions during the month jumped 42% in nearly 50 countries — mostly in Europe and the Americas — that shared such trend information. "Although 10,000 deaths a month is far less than the peak of the pandemic, this level of preventable deaths is not acceptable," the World Health Organization director-general told reporters from its headquarters in Geneva.