{"id":9941,"date":"2023-11-20T18:59:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2023\/11\/20\/after-massachusetts-cannabis-worker-died-from-asthma-attack-state-pushes-marijuana-industry-to-take-extra-safety-steps\/136009\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:59:16","slug":"after-massachusetts-cannabis-worker-died-from-asthma-attack-state-pushes-marijuana-industry-to-take-extra-safety-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/after-massachusetts-cannabis-worker-died-from-asthma-attack-state-pushes-marijuana-industry-to-take-extra-safety-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"After Massachusetts cannabis worker died from asthma attack, state pushes marijuana industry to take extra safety steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/after-massachusetts-cannabis-worker-died-from-asthma-attack-state-pushes-marijuana-industry-to-take-extra-safety-steps\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Minnesota_Legislature_Marijuana_15213-560x372.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/after-massachusetts-cannabis-worker-died-from-asthma-attack-state-pushes-marijuana-industry-to-take-extra-safety-steps.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/after-massachusetts-cannabis-worker-died-from-asthma-attack-state-pushes-marijuana-industry-to-take-extra-safety-steps-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>After a Bay State cannabis worker suffered an asthma attack and died, the state Department of Public Health is pushing the local marijuana industry to take extra safety steps to prevent work-related asthma.<\/p>\n<p>A Trulieve Cannabis Corp. employee who was packaging ground cannabis into pre-rolls at the company\u2019s Holyoke processing facility suffered an asthma attack and later died in the hospital last year. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated, and the company later settled with OSHA.<\/p>\n<p>DPH and OSHA confirmed that the death of the 27-year-old production technician was the first known occupational asthma fatality in the U.S. cannabis workforce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2023\/11\/16\/after-massachusetts-cannabis-worker-died-from-asthma-attack-state-pushes-marijuana-industry-to-take-extra-safety-steps\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles After a Bay State cannabis worker suffered an asthma attack and died, the state Department of Public Health is pushing the local marijuana industry to take extra safety steps to prevent work-related asthma. A Trulieve Cannabis Corp. employee who was packaging ground cannabis into pre-rolls at the company\u2019s Holyoke processing facility suffered an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,8304,6892,8244,528,8232,9,8242,1407,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,8305,6893,8246,3102,8234,8243,3976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}