5 min

Corporate manslaughter and worker's compensation The Wake Up

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After an explosion at a Seqens/PCI Synthesis chemical plant in Newburyport killed a worker named Jack O'Keefe, 62 of Methuen, we started wondering whether companies can be held responsible for on-the-job deaths. Special guest Daniel Medwed, GBH's legal analyst and a Northeastern law professor, joined Paris to explain what's at stake.

After an explosion at a Seqens/PCI Synthesis chemical plant in Newburyport killed a worker named Jack O'Keefe, 62 of Methuen, we started wondering whether companies can be held responsible for on-the-job deaths. Special guest Daniel Medwed, GBH's legal analyst and a Northeastern law professor, joined Paris to explain what's at stake.

5 min