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….
A bridge collapse in California has resulted in nine workers sustaining injuries. The work accident happened at approximately 11 p.m. Friday night. The Atkinson Walsh Construction Joint Venture company is in charge of construction, as well as completing an overhead bridge on the 91 freeway in Riverside County. The project began in July of…
Aworkplace accident has severely injured a worker in Bartonville, Texas. The accident occurred at Bonded Lightning Protection Systems at approximately 10:30 a.m. According to Argyle Fire Chief, Mac Hohenberger, a 25-year-old subcontractor was in the process of igniting gas-fueled water pump when an explosion occurred due to the water pump backfiring. The worker was…
A workplace accident has claimed the life of a teenager in Alabama. The accident took place on Monday night at approximately 6 p.m. in Tuscumbia. According to the Tuscumbia Police, 19-year-old Michael Perry was working on the roof of a Marley Flexco Plant building when he fell through a skylight, landing 25 feet below….
A work-related accident in Wilmington, North Carolina claimed the lives of two men. According to the Wilmington Fire Department, the accident occurred 8 a.m. on Monday morning. The employees were working for East Coast Contracting of Wilmington and were unloading concrete vaults from a flatbed truck with the use of a track hoe. Part…
A work-related accident injured a man on Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened in Jacksboro, Tennessee around 4:30 p.m. According to authorities, 23-year-old Justin Gary was severely burned in a workplace accident at Jack County Packers. It is believed that there was a fire at the facility and Gary sustained burns to his hands and…
A young man was killed in a work-related accident on Wednesday afternoon. The accident happened in Swansea, Illinois when an 18-year-old employee of a lawn care company was operating a mower to cut the grass near a lake. His coworker hadn’t seen the victim for several hours and decided to check on him. The coworker…