Immigrant Worker Hazard Alerts

Fact Sheets

• Fatal Work-related Injuries Among Brazilians in Massachusetts, 1999-2007 (PDF) 
• Acidentes de trabalho fatais entre brasileiros em Massachusetts, 1999-2007 (PDF) 

Alerts

• Brazilian worker fatally injured when crushed by five stone slabs (PDF) 
  • Trabalhador brasileiro morreu esmagado por cinco placas de granite (PDF) 
• 18-year-old Brazilian died on the job when a shoplifter stabbed him (PDF) 
  • Brasileiro de 18 anos morreu no trabalho ao ser esfaqueado por um (PDF) 
• Two Brazilian restaurant cleaners were injured on the job, one fatally, when assaulted by a robber (PDF) 
  • Dois brasileiros, faxineiros de de um restaurante, foram feridos no trabalho, um deles mortalmente, ao serem atacados por um ladrão que portava arma branca (PDF) 
• 42-year-old Brazilian roofer died on the job when electrocuted (PDF) 
  • Instalador de telhado brasileiro de 42 anos morre ao ser eletrocutado (PDF) 

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This information is provided by the Occupational Health Surveillance Program within the Department of Public Health.