A fireworks company is being fined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and will be responsible for paying almost $15,000 after an employee lost parts of her hands due to anexplosion. The female victim was inserting a match fuse into the charge of the firework when it exploded and she lost a…
A husband and a wife filed alawsuit claiming liability, negligence and insufficient measures against the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The couple is alleging that the railroad company the victim worked for failed to provide a safe work environment. The victim alleges he was physically injured while performing his job duties while employed by Norfolk Southern…
A construction worker is dead after a tragicconstruction site accident in San Diego. The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s office said the 38-year-old man died from injuries from a two-story fall in Chula Vista. The accident occurred just a day before Thanksgiving on the 4000 block of Fifth Avenue. Officials say the worker fell…
An Illinois utility worker was electrocuted and killed during awork accident in Sterling. Officials say the worker was an employee at a telecommunications company who was electrocuted while working on a utility pole located at 23rd and Locust Street. Officials say another man was injured and in critical condition at OSF Saint Anthony Medical…
Three Kansas workers have been injured at a steel fabrication supplier in anindustrial accident just northeast of Hutchinson. According to the Reno County Sheriff’s Office, three people were hurt when a pressurized water tank exploded. The industrial accident happened on Thursday at Wifco Steel Products. Officials report one of the workers is in critical…
A construction worker was killed in a tragicwork zone accident this week in northwest Indiana. Authorities say the worker was struck and killed when an SUV drove into a construction area Wednesday morning on I-65. According to Indiana State Police, a 23-year-old female driver of a 2013 GMC was traveling northbound on I-65 when…
Two accidents occurred on Tuesday around 4:00 in the afternoon, including aconstruction accident and a vehicle accident. While at work in a work zone on Interstate 69, a construction worker was hit by a vehicle. The worker was taken to receive medical treatment for their injuries, which are said to be severe. Consequently, traffic…
The St. Louis worker who was trapped in aconstruction accident on South Price was rescued Wednesday afternoon. Almost seventy emergency responders were called to the scene of a construction worker trapped beneath debris at a home in Ladue. According to the Ladue Fire Chief, the construction worker was attempting to demolish the Ladue home…
Today emergency crews work quickly to rescue a worker who is trapped in aconstruction accident in Ladue. Authorities say a Missouri man is trapped after a chimney collapsed during extraction around 8:30 a.m. this morning in the 400 block of South Price Road. On the scene, emergency personnel says the man is alive and…
An incident involving a worker falling and becoming injured on the job occurred in Bay Harbor Island, Florida recently. Theaccident occurred when the employee, who was working his first day on the job, was placing roofing sheathing. While doing so, he was carrying plywood. When a strong wind blew, it caused for the new…