For the second time in four years, federal investigators have determined a Prescott veterans’ medical center failed to protect healthcare workers from unit residents who kicked, bit, struck, punched, slapped and sexually harassed them.Late last year, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...Arizona News
The US Department of Labor found that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs endangered maintenance workers at its healthcare facility in Prescott by allowing them to work on steam lines without ensuring they followed required safety procedures. Similar hazards in a Connecticut VA facility led to the deaths of two workers who suffered...