Seven Mountains AFL-CIO statement on worker fall at Mount Nittany Medical Center

For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Connor Lewis [email protected]

Seven Mountains AFL-CIO urges Mount Nittany Medical Center to work with contractors to address worksite safety

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Alliance Exterior Construction worker injured in a fall at Mount Nittany Hospital’s tower expansion, and with his family. Every worker deserves a safe, good job, and to be able to go to work and return home safely. Families should not have to live in fear of what could happen to their loved ones at work.

We thank the Mount Nittany Hospital emergency medical staff for quickly stabilizing him for transfer to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. Our community is blessed with extraordinary healthcare professionals and staff, and they deserve every thanks for the work they do.

We are disturbed that this worker’s fall comes after an OSHA investigation was already launched over the summer into Alliance Exterior Construction for fall safety. Injuries like this are rarely unavoidable tragedies. They are the result of identifiable problems that employers have an obligation to address. Worker safety has too frequently been an issue in Centre County, and we must do better for the workers that build our community through their skill and hard work. 

We will continue to monitor the situation for developments. We believe that Mount Nittany Hospital, as a leader in securing community health and safety, must take responsibility for the health and safety of workers employed by contractors on the tower expansion. We urge them to work with their contractors to ensure that these problems are addressed.”

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Seven Mountains AFL-CIO is the local voice of the national American Federation of Labor and College of Industrial Organizations (“AFL-CIO”) and a Chapter of the Central Pennsylvania Area Labor Federation, representing 16,000 members of union households in Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin, and Juniata counties.