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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted December 28, 2009 By: Chris Wagner, KHASTV.com A Nebraska teenager is dead after being hit by a snow removing machine in a school parking lot early this morning. According to police, 19–year–old Christopher Johnson was struck by the pay–loader after he went to talk to the vehicle’s driver and slipped on the [...]
Posted December 11, 2009 By Boston.com The state’s highest court has upheld workers’ compensation coverage for a Peabody High School teacher who was injured in a skiing accident on a field trip. The Supreme Judicial Court, in a four-page decision written by Justice Judith Cowin, says it concluded that a teacher acting as [...]
Posted November 12, 2009 The Clarion Post A Warren County jury has awarded $7.6 million to a former sandblaster who developed severe silicosis. The verdict is the first silicosis case to go to a jury in Mississippi. Robert Eastman sandblasted for about 25 years at Marathon Letourneau in Vicksburg and used Mississippi [...]
By Holbrook Mohr – The Associated Press Published October 1, 2009 JACKSON, Miss. — International Paper Co. has settled another federal lawsuit stemming from a 2008 explosion that killed a contract worker at a Mississippi plant and injured nearly two dozen others. Cases involving several injured workers are still pending. The most [...]
By ELIZABETH BANICKI LOS ANGELES (CN) – Three ski patrolmen died at a volcanic vent at Mammoth Mountain ski resort, and two of their families say the United States is to blame for failing to warn about the fumarole and the poisonous gases that escape from it. The three men died in April 2006 [...]
