San Antonio Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Workplace Injuries

BP families and Citgo blast survivors visited the Capitol to encourage lawmakers to undo the Texas Supreme Court’s misguided decision in a high-profile workplace injury case, Entergy v. Summers. The...

Texas employers can opt out of workers’ compensation and become a non-subscriber. A non-subscriber is a Texas employer who does not purchase workers’ compensation insurance for their employees....

The Imperial Sugar Company in Gramercy Louisiana was cited for several violations. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited violations that could total $36,000 in penalties.Some of the violations were the dust collectors were not correctly equipped with explosion protection systems.An explosion on February 7th at the Imperial Sugar Company Refinery close to Savannah, Georgia...

A 5 ½ ton steel collar being installed around a 20 story crane broke loose from a building on East 51st St. and as the collar fell it struck another collar, knocking it loose rendering the crane unstable. The unsupported crane tumbled, crashing into the building and leveling a town house. Two construction workers and a woman from Miami were pulled from the Manhattan crane collapse. Torres,...

Yesterday, around 3:30 p.m. a construction site trench caved in burying Luis Garcia. Luis Garcia was dead when they were finally able to find him at 10 p.m. His brother, Robert Gomez was also in the trench when the cave in occurred, but only suffered minor injuries. The trench was 15 feet of dirt and clay when it caved in. No one has said what caused the trench to cave in. An autopsy will...

This morning, three construction workers were injured while working at a site at The Shops at La Cantera. One of the corners collapsed and the workers slid 28 feet. They were not critically hurt.

On Thursday, February 7th, the Imperial Sugar Refinery in Port Wentworth, GA exploded. The explosion was so big it sent 62 people to the hospital. Nine people were severely burned and six are still missing. Some of the people had burns on 80 to 90 percent of their bodies. The fire is still not out, but is almost contained. The explosion possibly happens due to sugar dust in the air getting...

An employee at the BFI landfill was bulldozing debris and accidentally fell off the hill. He fell about 200 feet and was airlifted to the hospital, but was not seriously hurt.For more information on this subject, please refer to the section on Worksite Injury and Workers Compensation.

Joseph Montez died because an outside service elevator opened and he fell 20 stories. At least two former workers at the site say that there had been saftey warnings months ago regarding the outside elevators. The former workers said they either sent written warnings or told hotel developer FaulknerUSA of Austin about the faulty elevators, known as buck hoists. Steve Killingsworth, vice...

Early on November 17, 2007 a worker was killed after falling 20 stories to his death at the Grand Hyatt Hotel construction site in downtown San Antonio. The worker's name is Joseph Montez and he was 24 years old. He was loading Sheetrock into a service elevator when the load shifted, pushed him and he fell from the 21st floor. Two other men were taken to a hospital to be treated for...

A worker died in a construction accident at the site of a new hotel in Niagara Falls. Work was being done on the roof of the hotel when two men fell from the roof. One of the men was killed and the other was injured. The mostly non-union site was already under investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for possible safety infractions dating back to August, said Arthur...

An unidentified construction worker from Tulsa was killed in a worksite accident on Tuesday. He was a dump truck driver working on a road excavation project. The accident happened on South Jamestown Avenue. The driver had gotten out of the truck to pull a tarp over the bed of the truck, Willingham said. At the same time the driver of the backhoe was backing up and did not realize that the...

A 24-year-old man was injured in a construction accident in Westfield on Tuesday morning. He was pinned to the wall by a heavy piece of machinery for around 15 seconds. His coworkers were able to get the machine off of him quickly. The man had trouble breathing after the accident. "They put matters into their own hands by putting him in a personal vehicle to take him to the hospital on their...

A construction accident in Coral Springs sent a construction worker to the hospital with critical injuries. The construction site is on Coral Hills Drive. The man was hit in the head and chest by the bucket of a backhoe at 8:52 a.m., said Fire Department spokesman Mike Moser.When fire department crews arrived less than a minute later, the man did not have a pulse and was not breathing, Moser...

A construction accident in Brownsville at the site of a new T-Mobile customer service call center has left two workers dead and a third injured. A wall on the building collapsed and killed two people. The worksite is located at the intersection of Heritage Trail and Paredes Line. Investigators have yet to determine why one of the buildings walls gave way. Another worker was injured in the...