An employee at a car wash facility was tragically killed in awork accident in Northeast Philadelphia. According to police, a fatal accident occurred at the Krewsin Klean Car Wash in the 9200 block of Krewstown Road in Bustleton at approximately 11:52 a.m. on Monday. A 22-year-old employee was struck by two different vehicles and…
Three sanitation employees were injured in awork accident in Philadelphia last Wednesday. According to police, the three sanitation workers were injured when their trash truck overturned in East Hunting Park Avenue at L Street in Juniata Park around 9:30 a.m. The trash truck driver told investigators he swerved to avoid an oncoming compact car….
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…
A construction worker was killed after an 187-foot beam, weighing 45 tons, fell at a bridge job site this week in Illinois. Three other men were also injured in theworkplace accident. A support beam, being held in place by two cranes, fell on top of the crew working over night at the Memorial Tollway…