Published: 4/11 11:56 am Updated: 4/11 6:35 pm Webster, N.Y.- A construction worker is dead after an accident at the site of the Monroe County Water Authority East Side Water Supply Treatment Plant Project in Webster. It happened while the worker was in a tunnel shaft at the site off Lake Road around 10:30 a.m. ... Read more

Did you know that workers who are injured in the course of their employment have two possible sources of compensation for their injuries? The first is a worker’s compensation claim. Suppose you are an over-the-road truck driver. You live in West Virginia. Your company is based in Arkansas. You were hired in Virginia. You were ... Read more

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, Fla. — An autopsy is scheduled for a well driller who died after a sinkhole opened beneath him and his truck fell on top of him. The body of 52-year-old Johnn Clyde Smith of Smith Well Drilling in O’Brien was pulled from the sinkhole early Sunday. An autopsy will be performed ... Read more

MAURICE, La. — Louisiana State Police say one worker was killed and two others injured in an accident at a gas well site just north of Maurice. The accident occurred about 12:30 p.m. Thursday at a Hilcorp Energy Company well near the border of Lafayette and Vermilion parishes. State Police spokesman, Trooper Stephen Hammons, told ... Read more

The WPIX Newsroom reported yesterday that two construction workers died after falling five stories down an elevator shaft inside a building in New York City’s Upper West Side. Details are not yet available but one thing is known. These men died too soon and left behind families that loved them. Construction jobs can be very ... Read more