Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regard to your coverage of the MBTA construction fatality on May 18, 1982, we found your front page photograph to be in extremely poor taste. The suffering of Mr. Kelley's family and co-workers must be acute enough without exacerbating their pain with the graphic depiction of his crushed body. The incident was covered extensively by the major Boston media outlets, all of whom refrained from such morbid illustration. What purpose did the Crimson's not one, but two, photographs serve? We feel that the Crimson should step back and assess the motives that compelled them to lower their...
John H. Kelly, 59, general superintendent for the Perini Corporation's MBTA Red Line Extension project, was pronounced dead on arrival at Cambridge City Hospital...
Officials from Perini the MBTA, the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industry and the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) are independently trying to determine what caused the crane to turn over...
Investigators said yesterday they have not yet determined the cause of Tuesday's accident at the MBTA Red Line Extension Project in Harvard Square which killed a construction worker...
...employees walking through the Square, Edward Lasham, director of external projects for the University, said yesterday. He added that the Perini Corporation has "a pretty remarkable safety record" considering the heavy traffic in the Square and the complexity of the project. P>Vince Farrell, area engineer for the MBTA, said. "The safety record of the Harvard Square job up until this time has been exemplary. "He said it is a general practice to make sure pedestrians stay clear of any possible danger, and the MBTA employs six policemen at the Harvard Square site...