OSHA probe finds home care agency failed to protect nurse killed in Connecticut

A home health care company is being fined over $163,000 after an investigation found that the company did not provide adequate safeguards to protect a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted sex offender last October, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday. The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that Elara Caring, one of the nation’s largest home-based care providers, failed to protect Joyce Grayson, a behavioral health nurse who was killed on Oct. 28, 2023, during a home visit in Willimantic,...