January 29, 2025
A worker died Tuesday after a house under construction in Massachusetts collapsed. According to local police, Mario Diaz Obando, 29, of Fall River, died when the house being built on Vine Street in Weymouth collapsed. Diaz and four other workers …
August 12, 2024
Boston police reported that a construction worker fell to his death while working on restoring Emerson College’s Cutler Majestic Theater on Friday, August 9. Police were called to the scene on Tremont Street at 12:45 pm. Photos showed scaffolding on …
February 8, 2024
The partial collapse of a house foundation was the apparent cause of the death of a 51-year old construction worker in Hanson, Massachusetts on Wednesday morning. The worker, Gerceir Osvaldo DeFaria, was pronounced dead on the scene, according to Plymouth …
March 28, 2022
A portion of a downtown Boston parking garage that was being demolished collapsed Saturday evening, killing a construction worker, officials said. Boston Emergency Medical Services confirmed one person was killed and a second person was transported to an area hospital, …
February 28, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines against two construction firms working on a new Amazon facility in Philadelphia after a worker died from being trapped when an excavation wall collapsed last summer. General …
March 30, 2021
A construction worker was killed when a trench collapsed on him while he was working in a residential development in the Hudson Valley community of Woodbury, New York, police said. The 43-year-old worker was digging in a 10-foot ditch when …
November 9, 2020
A construction worker was killed when he got trapped under a large steel beam at a site in northern New Jersey, authorities said. Orlando Rivas, 45, of Newark, was working in East Hanover when he became pinned beneath the beam …
February 4, 2020
A worker was killed at an Amazon delivery hub under construction at an airport in northern Kentucky, authorities said. The workplace accident occurred Saturday at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, WXIX-TV reported. The Boone County coroner’s office confirmed the fatality, …
April 15, 2019
A worker was crushed to death Saturday when a crane counterweight fell on him at a lower Manhattan construction site, the third time in less than a week that a New York City construction worker was killed on the job. …
December 19, 2018
A construction company whose employee died after falling out of an elevator has been cited for safety violations. WBTV-TV reports that the North Carolina Department of Labor announced that Gilbane Building Company is required to pay $20,300 in fines in …