On Saturday, a woman was scalped in aworkplace accident. The accident happened at approximately 6:45 p.m. at the Kalafatis Fresh Produce. The 21-year-old employee was cleaning a conveyor belt when her hair got caught in the machine. Her hair was ripped from her head, scalping her from her forehead to her neck resulting in…
As construction crews prepare to build a housing complex on Monday, a man was killed in aworkplace accident. Authorities reported that 64-year-old Peter Low, an explosives expert, was administering explosions to prepare the ground for pipe work. Investigators believe that there were two explosions heard and Low returned to the trench after the first…
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 842 non-fatal injuries were sustained by workers in third quarter workplace accidents. From July to September 2015, there was only one workplace fatality, but there were hundreds injured. The majority of these accidents have occurred in manufacturing and construction occupations. The statistics regarding workplace injuries are…
On Tuesday night, a man was injured in a workplace accident in Burlington, Iowa. The accident happened around 9:30 p.m. at the Samuel metal processing plant. According to authorities, a 7,000-pound steel coil fell onto the worker trapping him. The worker, a 56-year-old man, was rescued from underneath the coil, transported to the hospital…
A Marine Corp. veteran was killed in a workplace accident at a business in Anderson County, South Carolina. The accident occurred on Friday afternoon at STEC Equipment located on Old Denver Road. According to Don McCown, the Anderson County Coroner, 28-year-old William Edward Martin, was killed due to a severe head injury. He was working…
Aworkplace accident claimed the life of a worker on Monday evening. The accident occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas when a forklift accident occurred. According to the Little Rock Police Department, 28-year-old Christopher Miller was operating a forklift at R/L Carriers and loading cargo onto a truck when the truck moved forward, causing Miller to…
A Missouri drilling contractor has received citations stemming from a fatal workplace accident that occurred on June 24th. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined CBS Piling Solutions $15,000 for the negligence in the death of 42-year-old Michael Snider. Snider was working at a student housing construction site for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln when…
Awork-related accident has injured six construction workers in Houston, Texas. The accident happened on Friday when a large metal scaffolding collapsed. The Captain of the Houston Fire Department, Ruy Lozano, reported that the accident occurred at approximately 11:10 a.m. and debris was covering the majority of a city block on the corner of Crawford…
An Abercrombie and Fitch warehouse worker was killed Tuesday night in a forklift accident. The workplace accident occurred at one of the company’s distribution centers in New Albany, Ohio. The accident occurred at approximately 9:30 p.m. when two forklifts collided inside the warehouse facility. The worker was transported to the hospital where he died…
A construction accident in Oceanside, California has claimed the life of a worker. The accident happened at a construction site close to the El Camino High School on Tuesday morning. As crews were constructing a new FedEx warehouse facility, one worker was killed when a retaining wall collapsed onto him at approximately 9 a.m….