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…
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…
Awrongful death claim has been recently filed against the popular food company, Dole. The plaintiff is the family of an Ohio woman who died from listeria, allegedly after eating a salad from the food manufacturer. According to the Springfield News, the 79-year-old woman from Franklin County died this past February. The wrongful death claim…
A 55-year-old woman has died during a tragic zip liningaccident in Utah during her stay at the Sundance Mountain Resort. The fatal zip lining accident occurred last weekend on May 20, 2016, during the early evening in Provo Canyon. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the South Carolina woman died from blunt-force trauma while…
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…
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…
A South Dakota constructionworker was killed after falling 35 feet at a job site this week. The 24-year-old construction worker was working on the roof of the Watertown Recreation Center when witnesses say he fell. The Watertown Police Department report the man was taken to the hospital where he later died from his injuries….
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…
The Sunset Hills Police Department and the Melville Fire Protection District responded to a potentially deadly situation yesterday morning in Sunset Hills at the Hampton Inn at Lindbergh Boulevard. The emergency responders had received a report ofcarbon monoxide leak on Friday, April 8. Emergency crews immediately evacuated all hotel guests. The deadly leak was…