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…
On Tuesday, awork-related accident claimed the life of the president of a construction company. According to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department, 54-year-old Gary Berthelot was killed when he was working on a property in Louisiana. The accident happened at around 7:30 a.m. when a floor collapsed onto Berthelot at a former restaurant called the…
A man that sustained serious life-altering injuries in a workplace accident was awarded $15.2 million by a jury in Cook County, Illinois on Thursday. Thomas Neuhengen, a 33-year-old Army veteran, suffered injuries to his left foot when it was crushed by a forklift in 2012. Neuhengen was employed by Hemle Machine Co. as a…
A construction worker was injured in a work-related accident when she was struck by a vehicle in a construction zone. The accident happened on Wednesday afternoon in Paducah, Kentucky. The female worker, 39-year-old Amanda Taylor, was handling the responsibilities of the flagger when she attempted to stop a vehicle at approximately 3 p.m. The…
A fatal workplace accident occurred yesterday at the construction site for the Minnesota Vikings Stadium and upon investigating, the roofing company has had several safety violations in the past few years. On Wednesday, an employee from Berwald Roofing Co. fell from the roof to his death and another worker was seriously injured in Minneapolis….