Earlier this month, a construction worker in an underground excavation pit was seriously injured when he became partially buried by falling concrete. The construction accident occurred around 4:20am on Thursday, December 11. The unidentified worker was buried from the waist down inside a 25-foot deep pit. Emergency medical personnel responded…
Last Friday afternoon, a scaffolding collapse injured two workers in what could have been a much more serious accident, according to a veteran firefighter responding to the construction accident. Construction workers were repairing the façade of the Kravis Center for the Performing Art, which was damaged during Hurricane Francis in…
On last Friday afternoon, a man was tragically killed in a construction accident. L.B. Ellis, 62, was working on private land near the Kentucky Splash Water Park when he got out of his dump truck and his friend and business partner accidently struck him with the turret of the excavator…
A pipeline construction accident left a construction worker seriously injured after the worker’s clothing became tangled in a road boring machine, causing him to be pulled into the machine or into the hole. Jeremy Morris, 30, was transported from the scene of the construction accident to LSU hospital. The Laney…
This morning around 10:30am, a construction worker was taken to the hospital via airlift following a construction accident near the intersection of US 29 and Calohan Road. According to the county sheriff’s office, an overturned crane at a Bojangles restaurant injured the worker. The injured worker’s name and condition were…
Last Thursday, a North Andover Department of Public Works worker was injured. The explosion is under investigation; however, it is believed that the explosion may have been caused by fumes from a cutting torch. Kenneth Wedge, 59, was using the acetylene torch to remove the top of a barrel. It…
A Dracut, Massachusetts construction company has been fined $14,700 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following the death of a construction worker on June 3. Robert Augeri, 31, a worker employed by Brox Industries was working on an overnight highway paving project on Interstate 495 when he was killed…
A service technician who was working on a new high school wing suffered electrical burns as the result of a construction-related accident. Paramedics arrived at the school where the accident occurred around 8:35 am. The accident victim was alert and able to answer questions when they arrived. He had sustained…
Last Friday around 3pm, the fire department responded after reports of a collapsed structure at a construction site on Hawaii’s North Shore near Chun’s Reef. Initially, the firefighters had expected to free a trapped person, but when they arrived at the scene of the accident, they discovered that the victim,…
Earlier this fall just, a crane fell on a new middle school under construction in Rhode Island. The crane operator was warming up the machine when the boom fell onto exposed steel beams. Fortunately, no one else was in the structure and none of the construction workers were injured. In…