Massachusetts
Getting Answers: regulations at Massachusetts cannabis facilities
SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – We’re persevering with to dig deeper on a narrative we first dropped at you on Tuesday concerning the dying of hashish cultivation worker, Lorna McMurrey, in Holyoke. The U.S. Division of Labor’s Occupational Security and Well being Administration (OSHA) related her dying to marijuana mud inhaled at her job at Trulieve.
McMurrey died within the hospital in January. An OSHA report has now related her dying to inhaling marijuana mud whereas packaging pre-rolls on the Trulieve facility on North Bridge Avenue in Holyoke. Western Mass Information is now digging deeper into the rules at the moment in place for hashish services in Massachusetts.
“I believe one of many issues we’re seeing is that there’s a lot of mud created. Now, whether or not that was Causley related on this specific occasion to what occurred to her stays to play out,” stated Western New England College Professor Julie Steiner.
Steiner advised us why it is crucial for marijuana services to comply with correct security protocols on this newer business.
“Whether or not any person is injured to a small diploma or to a tragic diploma like with Ms. Mcmurrey, so , there must be correct coaching, there must be correct monitoring of this factor. It’s a must to have correct security units…Mud is mud and we have to be very cognizant, as an business, about ensuring the operators are doing the precise factor on their very own and that the regulators are doing that the precise factor to pressure the operators to do issues too,” Steiner added.
Following McMurrey’s dying, OSHA has filed three citations towards Trulieve associated to the shortage of acceptable coaching and obtainable security data for hazardous chemical compounds. We now have discovered from the Massachusetts Hashish Management Fee that licensees, equivalent to Trulieve, are chargeable for compliance with the next:
“Buildings, fixtures, and different bodily services shall be maintained in a sanitary situation.”
Incident Reporting Necessities – Public Security Personnel (OSHA): “An alarm activation or different occasion that requires response by public security personnel, together with however not restricted to native legislation enforcement, police and hearth departments, public works or municipal sanitation departments, and municipal inspectional companies departments, or safety personnel privately engaged by the marijuana institution/MTC.”
Western Mass Information additionally digging deeper into the corporate, Trulieve. In accordance with OSHA’s web site, Trulieve has seven violations at completely different areas in Florida, Pennsylvania, and their Holyoke location in Massachusetts.
Steiner additionally shared this message.
“I believe the Hashish Management Fee, and all states which have the equal, have to assume by way of what their very own rules are saying, utterly other than OSHA, to verify they as regulators are defending office security in these specific circumstances, particularly round kief mud,” Steiner famous.
An investigation stays ongoing into Trulieve by OSHA and the Massachusetts Hashish Management Fee.
Copyright 2022. Western Mass Information (WGGB/WSHM). All rights reserved.
Massachusetts
Police investigating shooting that left a man injured in Chelsea
A police investigation is underway in after a shooting in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Overnight, police had blocked off the sidewalk outside of the MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center on Everett Avenue.
Police say the victim was identified as a 30-year-old man who was shot twice.
The man has non life-threatening injuries, according to authorities.
Yellow crime scene tape was seen marking the area, and what appeared to be shattered glass was on the pavement nearby.
The incident is under investigation.
Massachusetts
Bay State museums make great winter excursions
It’s cold and gray and the idea of heading outside is literally chilling. You need beauty, history, intrigue and warmth.
Fortunately the Bay State is blessed with fantastic museums, both major institutions and small, unique versions.
Consider adding these museums to your cold winter venture list.
The One With the Heist
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (https://www.gardnermuseum.org) is worth a winter visit for its beautiful indoor courtyard, lovely café and intimate art display rooms.
But there’s so much more. First, the story behind how the museum was founded is told via photos and written word along one wall of the museum. It’s a great story with a female lead: Isabella herself commissioned it all after the art collector inherited just under $2 million back in the late 1800s.
But then there’s The Heist: the largest and still-unsolved art theft that went down in the wee hours of March 18, 1990 is the stuff of legend – and documentaries. Read up – or watch up – on it before a visit.
The One With the Murder Mystery
Did Lizzie Borden take an ax? Head down to Fall River and spend some time in the home where the infamous murders took place on Aug. 4, 1892. The Lizzie Borden House (https://lizzie-borden.com) offers property tours, ghost tours, cemetery tours and even a 10 p.m. -midnight ghost hunt.
The day tours are the only time you get access to every room, including the one that Abby Borden, Lizzie’s stepmother, was murdered in.
You can stay overnight should you wish, sleeping (or staying awake listening for ghostly creaks) where it all happened.
Hosts share facts and encourage opinion and speculation about the murders, the existence of ghosts and more.
“The Trial of Lizzie Borden” by Cara Robinson is a perfect fireside read, and will get you up to speed on all the nuances of the case before you visit.
The One with the Cat in the Hat
You never grow out of Dr. Seuss, and a winter visit to The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum in Springfield (https://seussinspringfield.org) is a great place to celebrate Theodor Geisel – his childhood in Springfield, creativity, success and more.
There are family friendly games, amazing displays and a setting that warms your heart. You’re treated to kid-friendly biographical information, and a Seuss trivia quiz.
The One With the Heroes
The Hull Lifesaving Museum isn’t big, but it packs a huge and amazing story.
Located in the former Point Allerton US Lifesaving Station on Nantasket Avenue (https://www.hulllifesavingmuseum.org) which opened in 1889 under the leadership of Joshua James who is considered a “father” of the US Coast Guard, the museum celebrates not just the founding of the Coast Guard, but “skills, courage and caring,” the hallmarks of sea lifesaving programs,
You’ll learn about the history of these lifesaving skills, the people who helped innovate those programs and more about the sea, ships and more.
The Museum has a standing collection as well as special exhibits and is open year-round. Before your visit, read up on the deadly Great Blizzard of 1888 in which more than 200 ships were either grounded or wrecked on the East Coast.
Massachusetts
Search underway for missing woman Owen Kasozi in Beverly, last seen walking dog on Christmas Eve
BEVERLY – A search is underway in Massachusetts for missing woman Owen Kasozi, who police say is “possibly endangered.” Police said she was last seen on Tuesday at about 3 p.m. near the JC Phillips Nature Preserve in Beverly.
Her family tells WBZ-TV she was walking her dog at the time.
I-Team sources say police are looking into reports that Kasozi was walking or running after her dog when she went missing. A dog believed to be Kasozi’s was found wet in Topsfield, and her car was found nearby.
A Massachusetts State Police helicopter was helping to search the area around 801 Cabot St. in Beverly on Wednesday. Anyone who has seen Kasozi or has information is asked to call Beverly police at 978-922-1212.
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