A contractor died after a crane overturned at a refinery in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis, a coroner said. Chad L. Crabtree, 47, of Owensboro, Kentucky, was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident Tuesday afternoon at the …
One of four workers who inhaled carbon dioxide in an accident at Los Angeles International Airport has died, his family said. Cris Abraham, 36, of Lomita died on Nov. 11 at a hospital where he’d been in a medically induced …
A tree trimmer was killed this week in the San Francisco Bay Area after he fell into a wood chipper, authorities said. The man, whose name has not been released, was working in the city of Menlo Park shortly before …
An electric company employee working on a backup generator project at Keene, New Hampshire’s wastewater treatment plant suffered an injury and died, city officials said. The Hamblet Electric employee was fatally injured on Wednesday morning. Other employees used a defibrillator …
Washington state regulators fined a wireless company $12,000 for safety violations after the death of a cellphone tower worker near Arlington last year. Michael Vasquez was working on a Crown Castle cell tower on Dec. 4, 2021 when he fell …
Crews recovered the body of a man who was buried under piles of grain and debris from a collapsed grain silo in southeastern Iowa on Wednesday. The collapse happened just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at a grain elevator at Yarmouth, …
A volunteer firefighter who was injured while fighting a blaze in Pleasanton, Kansas, earlier this week has died, officials said. Joshua Haynes, 35, was injured Monday during a fire at the Carpenter Chiropractor Clinic. He was flown to the University …
The failure to follow lockout/tagout procedures was directly connected to the death of a worker in Sumas, Washington, when an agitator arm inside a tank he was cleaning turned on, according to the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. …
A Bellingham, Washington, construction company is facing nearly $284,000 in fines for not ensuring safeguards were in place to keep workers from falling off the Beverly Railroad bridge spanning the Columbia River in Vantage. A 39-year-old man fell roughly 60 …
An Illinois pizza manufacturer could be forced to pay $145,000 in penalties after a worker suffered a fatal injury while cleaning a machine in July 2021. A U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection found that Rich …
