In Westford, Massachusetts, a quarry worker died on the job after a giant metal plate pinned him underneath. The metal had been dropped by an excavator. Manuel Neves, 62, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was using a machine that recycled large concrete blocks when the Massachusetts quarry accident occurred. Neves was…
Police are withholding the name of a fatally injured construction worker until they are able to notify his family. The 48-year old died last Monday because of a construction site accident at Mesilla Valley Mall in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Police said the man was working on the roof of…
The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Massachusetts reported on a Windham police officer who was recently injured on the job while directing traffic on Route 111. The incident occurred last Thursday while police Officer Bryan Smith was at a construction project at the corner of Range Road and Route 111. Smith…
Two steel-and-concrete beams intended as part of the Route 1A bridge reconstruction failed a Massachusetts state safety inspection last week, resulting in a delay in installation. One of the 120-foot-long beams was damaged during an accident and another sustained damage during loading. Both beams will need to be remanufactured, which…
A subcontractor employee died recently after a five-story fall down an elevator shaft several weeks ago. The accident was reported just before 6:30 am on August 4. The construction worker, David Smith, 31, of Jackson, was an employee of Schindler Elevator Corp. The construction manager on the project was Gilbane-Clark.…
According to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, a jury recently found a forklift manufacturer not liable for a 1999 forklift accident in Wayland which resulted in severe injuries to the operator, leaving him with severe disabilities. The operator was delivering trees to a construction site when he was thrown from the forklift.…
Thomas Gehl, a 41-year-old construction worker, died recently after falling 14 feet from a metal beam and sustaining head injuries. He was working on an addition to Douglas Elementary School in Douglas, Michigan and had been employed by FCC Construction for over a decade. He had also volunteered as a…
Last Friday in Titusville, Florida, a construction worker was killed when he was run over by a road-grader at around 4:40 pm. The construction project was intended to add two additional lanes to Grissom Parkway. As of this writing, 48-year-old construction worker had been indentified so that police could notify…
As longtime Boston residents may recall, a crane accident injured a construction worker 1999 during the Big Dig. More recently, fatal crane accidents in New York City, Texas, and Oklahoma have brought crane safety back into the public interest. In response to the deaths of these construction workers following crane…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed fines totaling $135,200 for twelve alleged safety violations at New England Wood Pellet, LLC’s manufacturing plant in New Hampshire. These citations come in response to an incident on January 23 where an employee was found in an unguarded conveyer. The list…