Workplace Injuries

• Families of Victims in Darby Mine Blast File Lawsuit

  Beth Janicek | May 24, 2007 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• $65,000,000 Pants Lawsuit

  Beth Janicek | May 07, 2007 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• $101 Million Dollar Settlement for Tropicana Victims

  Beth Janicek | April 25, 2007 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Construction Worker Thought He Was Going to Die

  Beth Janicek | March 26, 2007 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Danger in Working Teens

  Beth Janicek | March 22, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Not Following Safety Guidelines Cause Death of Worker

  Beth Janicek | March 15, 2007 8:36 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Crane collapse kills worker, injures another

  Staff Writer | February 26, 2007 1:10 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• Texas City Refinery Knew About Serious Safety Risks Before 2005 Explosion

  Beth Janicek | November 08, 2006 2:56 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• The Construction Industry leads in Texas Workplace Deaths

  Beth Janicek | October 27, 2006 11:27 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...

• On the Job Injury: Man Killed at Alamodome

  Beth Janicek | September 25, 2006 11:41 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  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...