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A crane collapse accident at an ethanol construction site in Hereford, Texas, killed a worker and injured another Thursday. A report from KTEN.com says that the fatal accident happened at the White Energy Ethanol Refinery construction site. The collapse apparently happened when Fagen Incorporated employees were attempting to add a section to the crane. One worker was pronounced dead at the scene...

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60 Minutes confirms reporting by the Houston Chronicle that BP executives knew there were serious safety concerns about the company's Texas City refinery in advance of the 2005 explosion that killed 15 and injured many more.A federal investiation gathered evidence gathered that shows that Parus and other plant officials were well aware of the safety risk in Texas City.A survey of employees...

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Construction leads in workplace fatalities in Texas according to a 2005 study released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In Texas there were 495 fatal work injuries in 2005, and 134 occurred in the construction industry. Overall, fatalities are down from the peak of 572 in 2000. Men accounted for 95 percent of work-related fatalities in Texas. Safety is a growing concern among the...

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On September 21, 2006 around 5:00 p.m., a roof collapsed and trapped two employees under the rubble. The men were working on a structure for the Builders Showcase Expo that is set to open September 28, 2006. Most of the workers had finished for the day and only the two men were left on the structure. One of the men died upon impact and the other is at Brooke Army Medical Center. The accident...

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A truck driver was killed in a Dallas construction accident Monday as he sat and waited for his truck to be loaded. While the driver sat in the cab, a front-end loader was moving concrete 19 stories above when the operator accidentally pushed a pile of concrete and a metal claw off the top of the building. The debris fell, landing on the cab and killing the truck's driver and another worker...

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