A Colorado worker was trapped for nearly two hours during aconstruction accident. The construction worker was stuck in a trench for almost two hours after he fell in at a Colorado Springs construction site. According to Colorado Springs Firefighters, the 30-year-old man was performing work on a water line on a residential street near…
A St. Louis roofer was severely burned during a job-siteaccident when he fell into a kettle filled with hot tar. The 66-year-old man was repairing a roof in University City when the accident occurred. According to the victim’s wife, her husband and son were finishing roofing work when he fell off the roof and…
An increase of on thejob fatalities in Tennessee last month has the head of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration very alarmed. The TOSHA Administrator told a local new station in Tennessee that four of the ten deaths in July were on construction sites. The head of TOSHA claims that all of the…
A Kansas Department of Transportation employee was killed during a fatalwork accident last week. The 39-year-old KDOT employee was killed when the mower he was operating overturned and trapped him underneath. On Thursday afternoon, the KDOT worker was mowing the side of Interstate 70 in Sherman County when the fatal accident occurred. This accident…
A worker at Tyson Foods lost his fingers in a gruesomeworkplace accident. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Tyson Foods Plant almost a quarter of a million dollars after serious safety violations. OSHA fined Tyson Foods Plant in Center, Texas approximately $236,000 for 15 serious violations and two repeated violations. According to…
A Kentucky man has been killed in a fatalworkplace accident in Louisville this week. The 33-year-old man was an employee at the Louisville cement plant, CEMEX Kosmos Cement Plant. When emergency crews arrived at 15301 Dixie Highway, they were told by plant personnel that a man was caught in a steel cable driven pulley…
Thirteen Chicago post office employees were hospitalized for heat-relatedillnesses on Saturday morning. According to officials, almost a dozen ambulances responded to the post office located at W Ohio and N Dearborn Streets around 8 a.m. The Chicago Fire Department reports thirteen people were taken to nearby hospitals for dehydration, heat exhaustion, and heat stress….
A fatalwork accident has left a man dead in St. Louis on Friday morning. According to authorities, a person was pinned under a forklift and died from their injuries. The fatal accident happened just south of the McKinley Bridge in the 100 block of Buchanan Street at approximately 9 a.m. The victim was said…
A contractor working for the Metropolitan Sewer District was finally rescued after a dangerous work zone accident today. The constructionworker became trapped in a hole at the 4100 block of Finney in North St. Louis on Friday morning. The MSD contractor was working with a crew to fill in a trench with dirt when…
A U.S. Postal Serviceworker was attacked and seriously injured by a swarm of hornets while on her suburban Chicago route this past Tuesday. The mail carried was on her route in Wheaton when she was stung between 30 to 50 times near her head and neck. According to a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson, the…