A 35-year-old construction worker was seriously injured by being electrocuted on Thursday morning in a workplace accident. The incident occurred in Mascoutah, Illinois around 10:49 a.m. and no one at the construction site actually witnessed the accident. However, several workers heard a loud popping noise and then found the Troy man unconscious on the ground…
Arguing with co-workers is sometimes a commonplace occurrence in certain positions, but one construction worker took his issue with another too far. In addition, a St. Charles, Missouri construction worker is now accused of striking his colleague in the back of the head with a shovel during an argument. Furthermore, the victim that was…
A donation fund was set up for a Ferguson, Missouri brewery who suffered a fire early Friday morning.The Ferguson Brewing Company has closed its shop for an undisclosed period of time, following the fire. An officer, driving by thebrewery, noticed smoke coming from the building and reported it to firefighters. Firefighters noticed the fire…
According to a federal agency, Ford Motor Company has been cited along with KCI Inc., which is based in Kansas City, following violations stemming from aworkplace accident. Furthermore, the violations were a result of the workplace accident that killed a 52-year-old contractor that became crushed by a piece of equipment. Tragically, the worker was…
Sadly in Bonne Terre, Missouri, a roofer has died following afatal fall. Furthermore, the workplace accident happened Tuesday when the worker was at a job at A Friend’s Place women’s shelter and fell approximately 10-12 feet. The Bonne Terre fire department received a call about the roofer just after 7 and, treated the man…
Sadly a hardworking employee and devoted family man was killed in aworkplace accident in Zilwaukee, Michigan. Furthermore, 50-year-old, Steve Rivera was killed Thursday, May 28th when a 40-ton concrete beam rolled on top of him while he was at his job at Stress-Con. The company manufactures precast and pre-stressed concrete. Rivera died at the…
The owner of a store that specializes in granite and stone waskilled at his place of business on Thursday. The man was crushed under a large slab of granite when it fell on top of him in his Lexington, Kentucky business. Authorities believe that the piece of granite somehow fell off of a forklift…
A 26-year-oldman was killed while working at the Cardinal Aluminum plant in Louisville, Kentucky on Monday. Authorities arrived at the plant around 8 a.m. and pronounced the man dead at the scene. Several workers witnessed the accident and stated that the man was working on a paint line and was reaching for some equipment…
Friday in St. Louis, MO, two demolitionworkers were injured when the building they were working oncollapsed. The two unidentified men were dismantling part of a building, and in the process of stacking good bricks to keep and sell down south when a chunk of the building crumbled. As a result, the two men fell…
Awrongful death suit that was filed by the family of a killed highway worker is going to trial, and jury selections have begun. In May 2012, four highway workers were struck on Highway 64 in Illinois as they were working in the median. Kory Links, Adam Evans, Dennis Beard, and Brian Moore were repairing…