The family of a California woman has filed awrongful death claim against the City of San Diego after she was killed when a tree fell and crushed her car. The accident happened on Sunday, January 31, 2016, at Ingraham Street in Pacific Beach. The 48-year-old woman was a professional drummer on her way to…
The parents of a child who died from a severe peanut allergy reaction reached a $15 million settlement with the city of Sacramento in awrongful death claim. Their daughter died after she ate a snack at a city-run camp in 2013. The 13-year-old girl was attending Camp Sacramento in July 2013. Her parents warned…
A Utah constructionworker was killed after jumping into a collapsing trench to save a co-worker in American Fork. The 41-year-old construction worker and father is being called a hero. The American Fork Police Department Chief called the incident a tragic accident. The fatal construction accident occurred at a housing development at 530 South 860…
A Missouri man was killed during a maintenancework accident on Wednesday afternoon. Authorities report the man was in the course of his maintenance job duties when he was thrown off a company ATV near the 13300 block of Bellefontaine in north St. Louis County around 12:45 p.m. The 40-year-old man from Hazelwood died of…
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…
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…
The death of a child at a Kansaswaterpark has caused others to come forward with similar stories of scary encounters on the waterslide. According to authorities, the 10-year-old boy killed at the Schlitterbahn in Kansas City, died of a fatal neck injury sustained on the Verruckt, the world’s tallest waterslide. More riders are speaking…
A child has died during a tragicaccident at a Kansas City waterpark over the weekend. The 12-year-old boy and son of the Kansas State Representative died while riding a waterslide, the Schlitterbahn water park’s main attraction. The 168-foot water slide called the Verruckt is known as the world’s tallest water slide. According to the…