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Harrison Ford suffered an injury during the filing of “Star Wars” and OSHA has determined that Disney is liable.

Aworkplace accident at a bakery claimed the life of a female worker on Wednesday. The accident happened at the Reams Grocery Store in Sandy, Utah. According to authorities, the 45-year-old woman was somehow pulled into an industrial mixer when she became caught on the augers. Coworkers reported they heard the woman screaming and when…

One person was killed in aworkplace accident during the early hours of Monday. The accident happened at Johnson Controls in Northwood, Ohio when a driver was pinned beneath a semi-truck. Emergency crews responded to the accident at 4:30 a.m. at the company that specializes in shipping and auto parts. The circumstances pertaining to the…

On Wednesday, two steel workers were injured in aworkplace accident at AK Steel Works in Pennsylvania. According to investigators, a reaction occurred in the plant’s melt shop furnace injuring one worker seriously and another worker suffered minor injuries. The accident is being investigated by AK Steel Works and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration…

An employee with the City of Berkeley, California has died after suffering injuries in aworkplace accident on Monday. According to city officials, 52-year-old Johnny Tolliver Sr. was employed in a position with the Department of Public Works and was collecting trash as part of his responsibilities. On Monday, Tolliver was crushed when the brakes…

On Wednesday morning, anindustrial accident resulted in the death of one worker. The workplace accident happened at the Tonawanda Coke plant at approximately 8:34 a.m. Few details have been released regarding the accident. Authorities did state that upon arrival, the emergency responders pronounced the 60-year-old worker dead at the scene of the accident. The…

An electric lineman was seriously injured in awork-related accident on Thursday night. The accident happened in Rantoul, Illinois at approximately 8:30 p.m. Marvin Scherbring, 56, and two other workers were attempting to restore power during an outage due to a transformer failure. Scherbring suffered serious burns and was airlifted to Memorial Medical Center in…

Awork-related accident occurred at a construction site and claimed the life of a man in Indiana. The accident happened on Wednesday afternoon near Fort Wayne, according to authorities. As 46-year-old Michael Elliott was performing work at a construction site for a new natural gas station when the accident happened. Elliott was working on a…

On Tuesday, one construction worker was killed and another seriously injured in awork-related accident. The accident happened in Louisville, Kentucky when a trailer came loose from a truck and collided with a pickup truck. The impact caused the pickup to spin into the work zone, striking 34-year-old Titus Morris and Jeffery Harrison. An ambulance…

On January 31, 2014, a U.S. Steel employee, 64-year-old Russell Brown, was killed in aworkplace accident. The accident happened at the U.S. Steel’s Clairton plant in Pittsburgh when Brown fell into water that was more than 150 degrees. The lawsuit has been filed by Brown’s daughter, Lisa Marie Coultas, accusing several companies of negligence…