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…
Two demolition workers were severelyinjured Friday after a building collapsed in St. Louis, Missouri. The two men were cleaning and stacking bricks at the 3900 block of West Pine Boulevard when suddenly a large section of façade fell. Both men fell from the third floor of the building all the way to the basement….
Friday morning in St. Louis, Missouri, two demolition workers were injured in a near-fatal workplace accident. The two men were in the process of dismantling a building at the 3900 block of West Pine Boulevard when they fell more than 30 feet to the ground. In addition, as the workers were removing bricks by…
Sadly a workplace accident has taken the life of a maintenance worker at West County Center in Des Peres, Missouri. Furthermore, the 53-year-old man was killed Thursday while using a hydraulic list at his job at the mall. According to police, the unidentified worker somehow became pinned between the rail of the basket of…
There are felony criminal charges pending against Bumble Bee Foods and two of its employees in connection with the death of a company worker. The horrible workplace accident happened in 2012 when 62-year-old, Jose Melena entered a room that was used to sterilize tuna cans. While Melena was inside, two other workers loaded carts…
Officials for the Occupational Health and Safety Administration are investigating an accident that claimed the life of one worker Wednesday morning. The workplace accident occurred at an Acme Industrial Plant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The employee was a 50-year-old man who became lodged in a machine that is used to cut and shape…
A 53-year-old contractor was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft Sunday night. He was working on the inside of an elevator at ArcelorMittal’s Burns Harbor plant. The man was working for Kone Elevators and Escalators as an independent contractor. He did not respond to his radio and for unknown reasons authorities…
An accident at the Rana Meal Solutions Plant has severely injured a 25-year-old employee. The incident occurred in Bartlett, Illinois on Friday around 3 p.m. when the employee’s arm became lodged in an industrial mixer. Emergency workers spent nearly an hour extricating the man from the machine, but his arm was unable to be…
A work-place accident that occurred at a construction site in North Carolina killed three workers and seriously injured a fourth. Choate Construction Company is the general contractor at the construction site of the Charter Square building in Raleigh and is working with Associated Scaffolding as a subcontractor on the project. Three workers were on…
An explosion Saturday afternoon has injured two workers in St. Louis. The incident occurred at a pallet company at approximately 12 p.m. Authorities believe that natural gas was built up in a room that was used for warm sterilization of the pallets and when the workers walked into the room, the explosion happened. The…