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Family, unions and safety advocates press for «department of workplace and consumer safety» at CCC after worker fatality
Summary
Multiple witnesses, including the mother of a worker who died, unions and safety groups urged the Joint Committee to back H.194 to create a safety department inside the Cannabis Control Commission to protect workers and consumers.
Family members of a deceased cannabis worker, labor unions and workplace-safety groups urged the Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy to report H.194 favorably, a bill that would create a department of workplace and consumer safety within the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission.
Lorna McMurray’s mother, Laura Bruno, told the committee her daughter collapsed and later died after an on-the-job asthma attack while working at a production facility in Holyoke. "Lorna's asthma attack was caused by occupational exposure to cannabis dust," Bruno said. She asked the committee to "support Bill H194 and take meaningful action to create safe, safer workplaces and protect lives." Bruno directly sought regulatory changes to…
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