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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...

A 46-year-old sub-contractor at Denver International Airport was killed by a sweeper on runway 16L. He was working to remove tire pieces from the runway. The workplace accident happened early in the morning on Monday. The sub-contractor was cleaning rubber pieces off the runway when he was hit by a large sweeper. "The man had apparently bent over to retrieve an item and could not be seen by...

Trial has started in a case where the workers are alleging they were made sterile from their exposure to pesticides. The workers were exposed to DBCP which was used to kill worms on the banana plants. The workers claim the employer exceeded the amounts recommended by the producers of the DBCP and were not protected from the unsafe exposure.The lawsuit accuses Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard...

Two men were killed inside of a sewer by fumes they inhaled while down there. The worksite deaths of the two construction workers happened on Thursday in Ontario. "It appears they were overcome by fumes of some kind and passed out," Bob Sumak, Deputy Fire Chief of Oakville Fire Services, told reporters. Despite the efforts of emergency crews to pull the men out in a rescue operation there were...

A man who was serving prison time in Kennebec County is now suing the county for a worksite injury he incured while on a work crew. The man slipped and fell off of a roof and broke his ankle. He claims that the roof was wet and the work conditions were dangerous in his lawsuit.The lawsuit, filed in Kennebec County Superior Court on May 17 by attorney Peter Clifford, charges the defendants with...

On May 24, 2007, a Denver jury awarded a former lineman with Xcel Energy $39 million. The suit was filed against Qwest Communications International Inc. who then sued Xcel Energy. The phone and electrical companies had a joint agreement where they agreed to use each others' poles for utility lines and the poles would receive periodic maintenance. On June 29 2004, Andy Blood was working on an...

Four of the five families filed suit against Ralph Napier, the operator of the mine; the Darby mine company; and Jericol Mining Inc.On May 20, 2006, five miners were killed and one miner survived the underground explosion at Kentucky Darby No. 1 Mine. The miners killed are Jimmy Lee, Roy Middleton, Paris Thomas Jr. and George William Petra and Amon Brock. Paul Ledford was injured in the...

First of all, this is not a personal injury case and the attorney who has filed the case is not a member of American Association for Justice. The vast majority of cases filed at the courthouse are well founded. Yet the media and others try to take a case such as this one to manipulate the public into believing that this is what is commonly being filed at the courthouse. It is not! The media...

The collapse of five garage decks at Atlantic City's Tropicana Casino Resort was due to flaws in design, execution and project oversight, according to an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It happened Oct. 30, 2003, as workers poured concrete on the top deck. The garage, part of a ritzy $265 million expansion called The Quarter, came crashing down in a stunning...

On Wednesday, March 21, 2007, Lawrence Martinez, a 32 year old construction worker, was laying a sewer line for a Northwest Side development, when the trench collapsed. Mr. Martinez was practically completely covered by dirt. His co-workers spotted his head and started digging with their hands. "His mouth was getting trapped with dirt," said Noel Panniagua, his supervisor and owner of...

Federal child labor laws prohibit teens from performing many tasks. Teens under the age of 18 are not supposed to work use certain types of equipment, serve and sell alcohol, or work long hours.The report from the University of North Carolina said some of the working conditions found in interviews with a representative sample of 928 teenage workers violated federal law."Teens are exposed to...

A temporary employee was not properly trained and was crushed to death, after being told, on her second day of work, to clean and unjam a large machine that cut Styrofoam. The family filed a lawsuit against her employer and the staffing agency.To meet production quotas, Insulfoam and its staffing service "removed or circumvented" safety guards used to turn off the cutting machine during...