Aforklift accident on Wednesday happened at a company where they have a history of citations issued for workplace violations. At around 10:15 p.m. a 43-year-old man was killed in a forklift accident at Pharmasol of Easton in Massachusetts. According to Easton firefighters, the man was found trapped between the forklift and a shelving unit,…
As a teenager was completing his first day of work, he was killed in awork-related accident. The accident happened in Gastonia, North Carolina when 19-year-old Mason Scott Cox was working for his employer Crawford Tree Service of Belmont cutting down trees in a yard when he was pulled into a wood chipper. Tragically, Cox…
Aworkplace accident has resulted in the death of a man in Indiana. The accident happened in Carroll County when two men were working in an eight-foot hole installing a drain pipe. The wall of the hole collapsed trapping both workers. Authorities confirmed that 29-year-old Jerrid Jackson was killed in the accident, and the other…
An industrialworkplace accident sent one worker to the hospital and killed two other workers on Monday. The accident happened in Goldsboro, North Carolina at SPX Transformer Solutions. One employee was working on a transformer when he failed to respond to others. Two co-workers came to his aid when they also became trapped in the…
Aworkplace accident happened at the Reynolds Aluminum Packing plant in Chesterfield, Virginia on Wednesday. According to the Chesterfield police, 55-year-old Eric Howard McClellan was critically injured when he was trapped by a piece of equipment at the facility. Emergency crews responded to the work-related accident at approximately 11:30 a.m., and transported McClellan to the…
Aconstruction accident in southwest Missouri claimed the life of a man on Saturday. As crews were working at a construction site for a seniors residential living facility in Carthage, a tragic accident occurred. According to authorities in Jasper County, 29-year-old Luis R. Estrada fell approximately 11 feet out of a wooden box that was…
Aworkplace accident in Chicago claimed the life of a 41-year-old man on Friday. David Wehmhoefer lived in Indiana but was employed by the Chicago concrete company Brookfield Iron and Metal. While he was working his shift on Friday, a work-related accident happened at around 2:30 p.m. resulting in the death of Wehmhoefer. The details…
A man was injured in awork-related accident on Monday morning. The accident occurred in Kegley, West Virginia when a Divisions of Highway state employee was holding a sign in a construction zone and was struck by a vehicle. The worker, a 54-year-old man, was holding a slow/stop sign near the intersection of Bartley Lane…
On Sunday, a FedEx worker died from the injuries he sustained in aworkplace accident. The accident happened in Memphis, Tennessee at the FedEx Ship Center. The center is part of the airport in Memphis and airport police contacted the Memphis Police to respond to the accident at approximately 6:15 a.m. There have been little…
Aworkplace accident last Friday claimed the life of a man in Canada. On November 14, a man in his late 40s was crushed in an accident involving a hydraulic conveyor. The man was employed at a peat moss harvesting plant owned by Sun Gro. The accident is being investigated by local officials as well…