March 28, 2025
A Pennsylvania cement company has agreed to pay $12 million to the family of an ironworker who fell to his death while attempting to set up a temporary catwalk at the company’s plant in Stockertown. In July 2021, the decedent …
January 10, 2024
Northridge Construction Corp. pleaded guilty to criminal charges last week in federal court in Central Islip, New York, according to federal officials. The three-count information alleges that, in 2018, during the construction of a shed on Northridge’s headquarters property in …
December 1, 2023
A federal grand jury has indicted Richard Zagger, of Blue Point, New York, charging him with conspiracy and obstruction of an investigation into a fatal construction accident, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The four-count indictment alleges that Zagger …
March 6, 2023
A construction company owner and an employee were charged with manslaughter Friday in connection with a trench collapse in Connecticut last year that killed a 56-year-old worker. Vernon police said they arrested Dennis Botticello, 67, owner of Manchester- based Botticello …
January 24, 2019
Authorities in North Carolina say one person is dead and two people are hurt after a barrier collapsed at a construction site. News outlets report the N.C. Department of Labor said the accident occurred Tuesday at a site where affordable …
July 15, 2016
A construction company convicted in the death of a worker in a New York trench collapse has been sentenced to fund a series of worker safety public service announcements. But an attorney for Harco Construction LLC told a judge Wednesday …