A New York City Firefighter waskilled in the line of duty on Tuesday morning. According to authorities, a Bronx battalion chief has been identified as the victim killed in a house explosion. The 17-year veteran and father of three was struck by debris while fighting a fire in the Kingsbridge neighborhood. According to the…
A Chicago constructionworker was seriously injured at a job site on Chicago’s Near North Side Saturday afternoon. Authorities say the 34-year-old construction worker injured his left arm as he worked inside an elevator. The young man was transported to a hospital where doctors amputated his left arm near his shoulder. Authorities say the man…
A young Kansas man lost his left leg in a tragicwork accident in Ellsworth on Monday. According to officials, a 28-year-old Co-op worker got caught in a grain bin. OSHA officials are investigating the workplace accident, and their safety officials say the man’s leg got caught in a running auger. The man was rushed…
In May of this year two men, dressed as employees, got in and robbed an HEB store. An employee wasattacked and punched by one of the robbers, they then took the money from the safe in the main office and fled the facility. An update was conducted today releasing surveillance video to get the…
A St. Louis roofer has died more than a month after a tragicconstruction accident in which he fell into a kettle of burning tar. The 66-year-old man died last Wednesday after spending over a month in a medically induced coma. The roofer was working on a one-story University City building when he fell off…
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 longtime employee with the Missouri Department of Transportation was killed in Franklin County during an April work-zoneaccident, and his killer has been charged. According to officials, a Hermann man is charged with second-degree felony assault on a highway worker as well as driving without insurance. The 55-year-old MoDot worker, of Rosebud, was struck…
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…