By New York Times   A subway maintenance supervisor was electrocuted early Monday morning while working on track repairs in the Rockaways, the first on-the-job death of a transit worker in three years.   The supervisor, James Knell, 45, a 13-year veteran of the subway system, was assisting on a track replacement project near the ... Read more

By Wytv.com   A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation worker was killed in an accident in Lawrence County Thursday.   Pulaski Township police said PennDot crews were paving State Route 551 north of State Route 422 when 42-year-old Richard Bentel, a Transportation Equipment Operator, fell off a grading machine and was crushed to death. Bentel was ... Read more

April 21, 2010 By Reuters.com (Reuters) – Eleven workers were missing and 17 injured in an explosion at a Transocean oil drilling rig off Louisiana, and crews were fighting the fire 16 hours later, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday.   An estimated 126 people were aboard the Deepwater Horizon at the time of ... Read more

By Donna Willis, www.nbc4i.com COLUMBUS, Ohio—Three people were injured Tuesday morning when a truck pumping concrete collapsed at the old City Center construction site.   Medics were called to the area of East Town and South 3rd streets, where crews from Igel Construction were working, at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.   A truck pumping concrete ... Read more

April 10, 2010 By: Matthew Mosk, ABC News   Over the past two years, controversial coal boss Don Blankenship has twice agreed to courtroom settlements requiring his company to clean up a checkered safety record, yet federal documents show Massey Energy mines continued to rack up serious violations in advance of the explosion that killed ... Read more