Recent Posts in Workplace Accidents Category
Posted on Aug 25, 2017
Sometimes attempting to rescue others doesn't make us a hero—sometimes it makes us an additional victim. In January of this year, three men were killed in an accident involving a confined ...
Posted on Apr 7, 2014
A man, who suffers with an abnormal sensitivity to sound following a chip mill accident, has been awarded over $3.8 million for his "unusual" personal injury damages, as reported by The ...
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
The Italian company that manufactured a smoothing and drying machine for use in a tanning facility, has been found responsible for a "gloving' accident that left a man permanently disfigured, ...
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
Today a parking garage under construction at the Miami-Dade college campus collapsed while construction workers were demolishing and rebuilding the structure. Fire officials rushed to the scene of the ...
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
Did you know that some of the most dangerous jobs in American all have one thing in common? They’re all jobs that are performed from the drivers’ seat. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows ...
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
A fiber optics technician in Santa Cruz, California, was just doing his job when he was set on fire by an electrical malfunction. The 47-year-old works for CableCom LLC, and was tampering with wires ...
Posted on Jul 10, 2012
A gruesome mining accident, that led to a man's painful fatality, is the subject of a wrongful death lawsuit against the man's employer for supplying him with a machine that was "unfit ...
Posted on May 24, 2012
News sources report that an older man lost his life in a boat accident last week while working. The victim was loading equipment onto a fishing vessel when his boom truck tipped and he fell from the ...
Posted on Mar 6, 2012
As read in The Roanoke Times, a former railroad worker that was crippled following a misstep when weeds had covered over a crosstie he would have avoided if seen, was awarded $4.5 million in a ...
Posted on Mar 1, 2012
A workplace accident at the site of the old World Trade Center caused quite a scare last week. While nobody was injured, early reports had at least one fatality listed when a large piece of steel fell ...
Posted on Dec 13, 2011
Police in North Carolina are still investigating the death of an older man that was killed on the job at a cotton gin. The 62-year-old victim was last seen operating a forklift to move around bales of ...
Posted on Sep 5, 2011
A workplace accident at one airport nearly took the life of a long-time employee. The man was working in the north cargo facility when a portion of the structure collapsed. He was pinned under ...
Posted on Apr 23, 2011
A workplace accident turned fatal when a man was struck in the head by a metal crossbar while on the job last week. According to police records Allan Michael Leschshyn, of Stony Mountain, was working ...