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Lisa Hobbs
Fatal Flaws: How Kentucky Is Failing Its Workers
We reviewed thousands of pages of fatality investigations and dozens of federal reports to conclude that Kentucky is failing its workers in how it investigates deaths on the job.

Fatal Flaws: How Kentucky Is Failing Its Workers

By Eleanor Klibanoff
Published November 12, 2018 at 11:06 AM EST
Lisa Hobbs
Michelle Hanks
Lisa Hobbs holds a photo of her and her husband dancing together. Her husband, Gene Hobbs, died from a construction site accident (when and where?).
Lisa Hobbs
Lisa Hobbs holds a photo of her and her late husband, Gene Hobbs, dancing together. Hobbs died in Meade County in 2016 when he was run over by a dump truck driven by a coworker.

 

Kentucky failed to properly investigate nearly every workplace fatality for a two-year period. That's left Kentucky's workers at risk, and the state's worker safety agency in peril.

Read our special investigation — a collaboration of the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, the Ohio Valley ReSource and the Center for Public Integrity — at fatalflaws.kycir.org.
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