New York State police report a double-deck bus was blown over early this morning on interstate 90, near Buffalo, New York causing 9 of 13 occupants to be transported to hospital. The conditions included snow and winds from a storm system affecting a large part of the country along with lake effect snow bands from Lake Erie.

A Call to Safeguard Workers
The Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health, “WNYCOSH”, an independent not-for-profit safety group issued a report January 25, 2016, providing that the Scaffold Law, Labor Law Section 240 is essential to protect construction workers. As a son of a construction worker, I feel strongly that