Workplace Injuries

• Wisconsin Construction Accident Kills Man

  Shannon Weidemann | December 20, 2007 9:12 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A construction worker from Racine was killed in a construction accident in Somers on Wednesday. He was working in a trench when there was a cave in and he became trapped. The victim was 52-years-old. The worksite is the scene of a future shopping center at Highway 31 and County Highway S. Rescue teams worked feverishly to free the man," the Kenosha Sheriff's Department said in a statement....

• Austin Construction Accident Kills Man

  Shannon Weidemann | December 06, 2007 7:19 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man was killed in an Austin construction accident Thursday. The worker was near a retaining wall and a boulder at the time of the accident. He was crushed when the boulder moved. Authorities say the man was crushed either when workers were trying to move the boulder, or he fell on his own beneath them.The incident happened while a house was under construction. The accident happened on a...

• New Orleans Construction Accident Kills Man

  Shannon Weidemann | November 18, 2007 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A construction worker from Amite was killed in a worksite accident in New Orleans on Wednesday. The worksite was near Loyola University and involved a dump truck and a front loader. According to police, the victim was operating a dump truck. He apparently parked and stepped away from the vehicle for a moment. Meanwhile, a nearby tractor began moving forward, trapping the victim between the...

• Las Vegas construction accident deaths

  Staff Writer | August 20, 2007 12:44 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Las Vegas Business Press reported the tragic construction worker death on Aug. 9 at MGM Mirage's CityCenter project between the Monte Carlo and Bellagio resorts, and another death at the Fontainebleau Resort Hotel site nearby on Aug. 2.In the CityCenter construction accident, worker Harvey Englander, 65, was reportedly working on an elevator and was cut in half when he leaned into the...

• Report details fatal workplace injuries in 2005

  Staff Writer | May 23, 2007 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A report this month from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows a decline in the number of fatal occupational injuries in the U.S. during the year 2005. The report is based on data that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) collected from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).For 2005, BLS reported a total of 5,702* work-related fatal injuries and a rate of 4.0...

• Workplace shooting leaves one dead, two injured

  Staff Writer | April 10, 2007 8:42 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A laid-off employee in Michigan opened fire with a 12-guage shotgun on his former office and co-workers Monday, killing a woman and injuring the firm's two partners.The office shooting occured in Troy at Gordon Advisors Accounting Firm, where employees reportedly barracaded themselves in their offices and hid during and after the shooting. Police officers on the scene removed the employees in...

• Construction accident causes worksite injuries

  Staff Writer | March 29, 2007 4:38 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Today in San Francisco on Nob Hill, four construction workers at a residential remodel site were injured when a cave-in occurred in the basement of the building. The men reportedly worked for Dore Construction, and were using jackhammers and other tools when the earth came loose, crumbled and trapped them for a time in the rubble. A report on the construction accident from SFGate.com offers...

• Construction workers risk more death and injury

  Staff Writer | February 21, 2007 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An article from Workday Minnesota this week addresses the latest statistics from the Federal Bureau of Labor that say construction workers have the highest occupational incidence of injuries and deaths.The article says that construction worker deaths accounted for greater than 1 in 5 workplace fatalities in 2005, which amounts ot 1,186 construciton deaths out of 5,702 total workplace deaths that...

• Hotel construction site injuries

  Staff Writer | January 02, 2007 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A story out of New Jersey on Trentonian.com reported a Friday construction site accident in which two workers fell four stories in a scaffolding collapse.The two workers were rushed to the hospital to be treated for internal injuries. The story says that the scaffolding was makeshift, without safety standards in mind:"They had made homemade scaffolding," Kostoplis said. "In fact, they put a...

• Crane accidents in Washington point to neglect

  Staff Writer | December 07, 2006 8:42 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The latest news about the Washington state crane accidents point to neglect, says a report by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. During the past three weeks, four cranes have been reported to have serious safety problems. It's most likely that the required maintenance and inspections that are standard for construction cranes have been insufficiently performed. The article reports:Besides a crane...