The widow of a Massachusetts police officer says the stress of the job led her husband to take his own life in 2006. The police officer had been injured during an overtime shift in 1993 and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder the following year. Despite signs that the officer…
Earlier this year, a worker died after he became caught in the moving parts of an industrial ice-making machine. The machine activated as the worker performed maintenance work inside it. When officials from Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the New Bedford company, a seafood processor, they discovered 23 alleged…
On Monday morning, a work-related accident at a Taunton warehouse killed a worker. The 51-year-old Stoughton resident was operating a stand-up forklift when it slammed into one of the building supporting beams and threw him to the concrete floor. The impact of the fall accident caused massive bleeding after the…
Following an investigation into a fatal fall accident in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued two serious citations to a Kansas construction firm. The alleged violations come with $13,300 in proposed penalties. When OSHA inspectors visited the construction work site, they discovered that employer had…
Earlier today, a construction accident in Kansas City’s West Bottoms killed a worker. The crew was trying to adjust scaffolding when one of the metal attachment used to hold the scaffolding together reportedly came apart and fell five stories, striking the worker in the head. The fatal accident occurred around…
A Summerhill couple is seeking more than $150,000 from Siemans AG, because they say the German conglomerate is liable for the husband’s catastrophic brain injuries, which were sustained in an industrial accident. According to the suit, Morgan Construction Co. of Massachusetts (part of Siemans) sold Bethlehem Steel a wire drawing…
Earlier this week, we blogged about a near collision between a truck and aircraft at Boston’s Logan Airport. On Tuesday morning, a serious accident at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas injured five construction workers. The workplace accident occurred when a rebar cage collapsed as they were building it, trapping…
Last Monday, a 42-year-old technician was airlifted to the intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston following a wave soldering machine accident. The machine reportedly caught fire and burned the worker from the chest up when he opened a service door on the machine to add an alcohol-based…
In Peabody, Massachusetts, a transfer machine crushed the legs of a worker who was part of a highway repaving project on Route 128 south. According to Phil Jodoin, the resident engineer for MassHighway who was on the scene to oversee the project, the construction accident occurred at 10:30 on Monday…