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…
As millions of Americans started their work week Monday morning, an unexpected workplace accident claimed the life of a worker in Maryland. The accident happened in Clarksburg at around 7:30 a.m. According to the Montgomery County Police, 28-year-old Glenn Edward Baugher III was involved in an industrial accident possibly involving heavy machinery. Baugher was…
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…
On Tuesday, workers were completing construction at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee when an explosion occurred. According to authorities, theworkplace accident was caused by a concrete pump exploding in the face of a worker at approximately 11:11 a.m. The pump was moving concrete from a concrete truck to a tennis court when the…
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…
On Saturday morning, aworkplace accident claimed the life of a worker at a Sears Auto Center in Salem, New Hampshire. According to the Salem Police and Fire Department, 22-year-old Justin Almon was attempting to repair a truck tire at the Sears located at The Mall at Rockingham Park when the tire exploded at around…
An Ohio envelope printingcompany has had charges pressed against them by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for not guarding their employees from mobile machine parts that were on production lines. The charges total up to about $88,200. Three people were affected by failures of the printing company. Firstly, last summer an employee suffered…
On Tuesday, a workplace accident injured 11 workers at a plant in West Virginia. The accident happened at the Axiall Corp.’s Natrium plant that manufacturers chemicals in New Martinsville. Authorities have indicatedworkplace accident that a coal-fired boiler is responsible for the accident that occurred at around 7 a.m. The workers were transported to area…