Much of the investigation will focus on cases in New York City and its surrounding areas. New York State has suffered the nation's highest rate of immigrant workers killed on the job.
Does OSHA overlook immigrant deaths?
The U.S. Labor Department's inspector general plans to examine how OSHA conducts reviews of immigrant deaths in the workplace after Newsday, a New York metropolitan area newspaper, reported that hundreds of immigrant worker deaths in recent years were never reviewed by OSHA.
