On Saturday night, an accident at the construction site of a soon-to-be Texas Roadhouse killed a subcontractor. The man was working as part of the painting crew when the construction site accident occurred around 5:30pm. Authorities believe the worker fell. When rescue crews arrived at the scene of the accident,…
On Sunday evening, a construction worker was killed on Interstate 215 in Utah. Troopers say the worker was walking in a construction zone when a truck drifted into a barreled off construction area and hit the worker. According to police, the truck was traveling at more than 40 miles per…
Earlier this month, a Waste Management worker was killed in a garbage truck accident at Boston’s Fenway Park. The workplace accident was reported at around 8:35am on the morning of September 4. Fire, police, and emergency medical services personnel reportedly responded to the call. Emergency medical personnel found the truck…
Our Massachusetts workplace accident lawyers recently read about a string of workplace fatalities in late August and early September. In the course of one week, there were three workplace deaths in Massachusetts. The first fatality involved a 34-year-old police officer who died in Weymouth while directing traffic at a utility…
Last week, a Massachusetts man sustained fatal injuries in an electrical accident while working on renovations to a supermarket in Stow. Police have not released the name of the 33-year-old electrical subcontractor, who is from Athol. He was not an employee of Shaw’s Supermarket, which is based in West Bridgewater.…
Last Monday, a police officer from Weymouth, Massachusetts was hit and killed by a pick-up truck while he worked a construction detail. The 34-year-old husband and father of three served in Iraq before returning to his hometown and joining the police force. Hundreds of people gathered at Saint Francis Xavier…
As of Thursday, two of the workers who survived a construction accident last week were still in the hospital. Jessis Dominguez was listed in fair condition, and Maria Lima was listed in serious condition and was still in the intensive care unit. The workers were building a steel bridge pylon…
On Tuesday, a construction worker died after the front-end loader he was driving fell seven stories. Carlos Maryorga, 35, was pinned inside the Bobcat and rescue crews had to extricate him. The construction accident occurred at a construction work site on Chicago’s Near South Side around 9:40am. The work was…
Last week, two brothers, ages 8 and 12, accompanied their father to work at a pool construction site. They climbed into the bed of a sand truck, and the older brother was tragically buried alive underneath a sand pile. The 8-year-old was half buried and holding on trying to keep…
Last Thursday, eight workers were injured when Madonna’s stage collapsed in Marseille. Five of the injuries were serious. Two more workers were killed while constructing the stage for an upcoming Madonna concert. The concert was scheduled for Sunday, but it was cancelled after the construction accident. A French worker, 52-year-old…