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…
A U.S. Postal Serviceworker was attacked and seriously injured by a swarm of hornets while on her suburban Chicago route this past Tuesday. The mail carried was on her route in Wheaton when she was stung between 30 to 50 times near her head and neck. According to a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson, the…
A Kansas construction worker fell 120 feet and has surprisingly survived during awork-related accident. According to the Pratt County Sheriff, two men were working on a wind turbine when they both fell off on Sunday morning near Pratt. The workers were repairing a blade on a wind generator when one worker fell over a…
Two Arizona men were injured in awork accident earlier this month at a road work zone in Surprise. According to the Surprise Fire Department, two road workers were injured when a girder fell onto construction equipment at a road construction zone near Bell Road and Grand Avenue. One of the men was seriously injured…
A Chicago woman is dead after a CTAwork accident earlier this month. According to CTA and the police, the CTA worker died on the tracks of a Northwest Side Blue Line station at approximately 1 a.m on a Saturday morning. The 37-year-old woman was working a flag man positioned on the tracks to alert…
Three firefighters are recovering after recentwork accidents in Nashville, Tennessee. According to authorities, three firefighters were injured on the job, fighting two separate fires. One firefighter was overcome with heat and another suffered from hypertension while fighting a fire in Madison. Both men are expected to recover. The third firefighter was fighting a fire…
An Illinois construction worker has died from injuries suffered from a gas explosion in aworkplace accident. The 44-year-old southwest Illinois construction worker suffered severe burns on a job site when a 10-inch gas line was hit and caused an explosion on April 6. The man was burned on over 70% of his body. Medical…
On Thursday, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral was filled with people gathering to remember the men and women who have lost their lives in fatalworkplace accidents. Those gathered were construction workers and laborers honoring their fallen brothers and sisters. The St. Patrick’s Cathedral bell rang 17 times for the 16 construction workers who have died…
An Illinois man was killed in while working when a garbage truck overturned and crushed him. Thework-related accident happened at a landfill in Rockford, Illinois on Thursday afternoon. According to authorities, the truck was full of 8 tons of concrete, wood, and steel. The police chief indicated that the 54-year-old man was attempting to…
Awork-related accident claimed the lives of two workers and injured a third in Davis, Oklahoma. The tragic accident occurred when the maintenance workers were performing work at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center on Friday. There have been few details released regarding the incident; however, the accident occurred at the center’s water plant and…