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Massachusetts has one of the highest concentrations of colleges and universities in the country, and with hundreds of thousands of students living, studying, and socializing on and around its campuses

Some of the most dangerous jobs in Massachusetts, in construction, landscaping, food processing, cleaning, and manufacturing, are held by immigrant workers, and many of them are undocumented. When one of

Electricity is so much a part of daily life that its danger is easy to forget, until a downed power line, a faulty wire, or a piece of ungrounded equipment

When a heavy object falls on a limb, a hand is caught in a machine, or a body is pinned between two hard surfaces, the result can be a crush

Fireworks are so associated with celebration that their dangers are easy to forget, until one goes wrong. A firework can burn skin to the bone, blow off fingers or a

Some injuries are caused not by an impact or a fall but by exposure to something harmful in the air, on the skin, or in the environment. A worker who

Not every workplace injury happens in a single dramatic moment. Some build up slowly, over months or years of the same motions repeated thousands of times a day, until a

A mesothelioma diagnosis arrives like a message from the distant past. The disease is caused almost exclusively by asbestos, a mineral once used everywhere in construction, shipbuilding, and industry, and

Some injuries change everything. A spinal cord injury that ends the ability to walk, a severe brain injury that alters thinking and personality, an amputation, a devastating burn, a serious

For a person with a serious food allergy, eating out is an act of trust. You tell the server about the allergy, you ask the questions, and then you trust