Ford Motor Cited in Connection With Worker’s Death

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…

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Roofer Dies in Missouri From Fall

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…

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Father of Seven Killed in MI Workplace Accident

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…

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Construction Worker Dies on Job at SIUE

Sadly a construction worker hasdied while on the job Thursday afternoon at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville’s campus. The worker is yet to be identified until the next of kin has been notified. What is known is the worker was employed by Keller Construction and was working on the road at the time of…

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Slab of Granite Crushes Man to Death

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…

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Company Under Suspicion in Fatal Work Accident

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…

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2 men injured in STL building collapse

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…

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On Trial: Wrongful death suit of highway worker

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…

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Two demolition workers hurt in STL building dismantling job

On Friday, two men were seriously injured in a building collapse at the 3900 block of West Pine in St. Louis, Missouri. The workplace accident happened when the men were in the process of going through bricks on the third floor of a building when a section of the building fell off, and sent the…

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Workers injured in St. Louis building collapse listed in stable condition

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….

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