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 young Michigan man has died in aworkplace accident at a molasses manufacture in Saugatuck. The 23-year-old was killed during a repair of a molasses tank at Agri-Science Technologies on the morning of July 26. According to reports, the employee entered a 12-foot-tall molasses tank to reach a pump-out valve. A co-worker claims the…
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…
A contractor working for the Metropolitan Sewer District was finally rescued after a dangerous work zone accident today. The constructionworker became trapped in a hole at the 4100 block of Finney in North St. Louis on Friday morning. The MSD contractor was working with a crew to fill in a trench with dirt when…
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…