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…
On April 7th, a Missouri Department of Transportation worker wasstruck by a motorist and killed. The 55-year-old MoDOT worker was working on Highway 100, just west of Buchheit Road, when he was struck by a car. The MoDOT man, along with other crew members, were performing normal maintenance of the road. There was a…
A man was killed in aworkplace accident at one of the largest employers in Cartersville, Georgia. The worker was completing maintenance on a large piece of machinery when the accident happened on Saturday afternoon, according to the Bartow County Sheriff’s Department. For unknown reasons, he became trapped in the machinery and crushed to death….
A tragicworkplace accident has resulted in the death of a man in Alabama on Friday. Authorities are labeling the incident as an industrial accident which happened in McCalla. The worker was performing his regular duties when the accident happened at around 11 a.m. According to investigators, a large piece of machinery fell on the…
Harrison Ford suffered an injury during the filing of “Star Wars” and OSHA has determined that Disney is liable.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating aworkplace accident that resulted in the death of a worker. The fatal accident occurred in Rose Hill, Kansas on Tuesday morning. According to the Rose Hill Police, at around 6:30 a.m. when a 24-year-old man was operating a lathe when an accident happened causing the worker…
A car accident occurred last summer involving a teenage driver who passed away as a result of an explosiveairbag inflator. The airbag inflator was made by Takata, a company that constructs parts for automobiles. It is the largest constructor of air bags in the world. A recall of vehicles that have Takata air bags…
Aworkplace accident claimed the life of a man on Christmas Eve and the Occupation Safety and Health Administration is launching an investigation. The accident happened in Holden, Massachusetts when 30-year-old Edgard Nieves was killed in an accident while performing work at his place of employment. Nieves was employed as a machinist with Inner-Tite Corp….
On January 31, 2014, a U.S. Steel employee, 64-year-old Russell Brown, was killed in aworkplace accident. The accident happened at the U.S. Steel’s Clairton plant in Pittsburgh when Brown fell into water that was more than 150 degrees. The lawsuit has been filed by Brown’s daughter, Lisa Marie Coultas, accusing several companies of negligence…