Last week, investigators identified the victim of a fatal construction accident in Clifton Park, New York. The accident victim was Brett Peck, 20, of Lennox, Massachusetts. Peck was installing a drainage pipe behind a home last Monday when the walls of a ditch collapsed, burying him alive. Peck’s coworker, who…
In Waltham, Massachusetts at the campus of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, a hydraulic lift fell and killed a construction worker. The construction site accident seriously injured another worker, who was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Waltham police said the hydraulic lift accident occurred just after 11am on October 10,…
The Boston Globe reported yesterday that the family of the Jamaica Plain woman crushed in the 2006 Big Dig ceiling collapse will receive over $28 million. Milena Del Valle was killed while driving down Interstate 90 with her husband on July 10, 200. Concrete panels weighing 26 tons fell from…
In Walpole, Massachusetts, a construction worker died after being electrocuted. Romulo Santoes, 47, was doing overnight construction work on a Wal-Mart when he was electrocuted while trying to re-attach electrical wires. The wires had been severed by a construction crew doing demolition work. Santos was taken to Norwood Hospital where…
On Friday morning around 9 am, four constructions workers died after a drainage trench they were working in collapsed. The four men were digging the trench when it collapsed on top of them. The construction accident occurred on state Highway 12 near the town of Verdal, Nebraska, which is 155…
A construction worker who had been pinned in a trench at a construction project last week was pronounced dead. Steven Dale Slee, 28, died from injuries to his trunk and the medical examiner’s office has pronounced the incident an accident. Slee was taken to the hospital after 7,000 pounds of…
Do the parents of a murdered high school student have the right to file a wrongful death suit against their son’s part time employer when their son was killed during a shift? That’s the question that the Supreme Judicial Court is slated to examine on September 3. In Saab, et…
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…
Brian Millet, 54, died last week at Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts after falling four stories down an elevator shaft in a Hampton Inn under construction in Enfield, Connecticut. Millet was still conscious when medical personnel arrived at the scene of the accident, but he later died of injuries sustained…