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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more