Earlier this month, a train collision in Chatsworth, California killed 25 people and left 135 injured. More recently, it was discovered that one of the engineers involved in the deadly train crash was sending and receiving text messages while on the job. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is still…
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…
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…
New Hampshire contractors say that misclassification of workers among their competition has forced them to seek business elsewhere in Massachusetts. They claim that it is almost impossible for them to land construction projects in their own state because their competitors illegally misclassify workers to avoid paying for workers’ compensation, cutting…
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…
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…
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.…