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…
A worker at Tyson Foods lost his fingers in a gruesomeworkplace accident. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Tyson Foods Plant almost a quarter of a million dollars after serious safety violations. OSHA fined Tyson Foods Plant in Center, Texas approximately $236,000 for 15 serious violations and two repeated violations. According to…
A Kentucky man has been killed in a fatalworkplace accident in Louisville this week. The 33-year-old man was an employee at the Louisville cement plant, CEMEX Kosmos Cement Plant. When emergency crews arrived at 15301 Dixie Highway, they were told by plant personnel that a man was caught in a steel cable driven pulley…
A North Carolina teen has been killed in a horrificworkplace accident after he was sucked into a woodchipper on his first day of work. According to the Kings Mountain Police, the 19-year-old had just begun working at Crawford’s Tree and Stump Grinding Service, cutting down trees in a residential neighborhood on Saturday. Officials say…
Thirteen Chicago post office employees were hospitalized for heat-relatedillnesses on Saturday morning. According to officials, almost a dozen ambulances responded to the post office located at W Ohio and N Dearborn Streets around 8 a.m. The Chicago Fire Department reports thirteen people were taken to nearby hospitals for dehydration, heat exhaustion, and heat stress….
A fatalwork accident has left a man dead in St. Louis on Friday morning. According to authorities, a person was pinned under a forklift and died from their injuries. The fatal accident happened just south of the McKinley Bridge in the 100 block of Buchanan Street at approximately 9 a.m. The victim was said…
An Illinois-based recycling center has been fined by OSHA and ordered to pay $350,000 after aworker was killed on the job. Behr Iron and Steel Inc. is ordered to pay restitution of $350,000 to the victim’s estate as well as serve a five-year probation. The fatal accident occurred back in March 2014 when a…