SEOUL — Production at Hyundai Motor’s factory in Ulsan, South Korea, was halted on Monday after a worker died in an accident, shortly after the plant was refitted to manufacture a new electric vehicle, a labor ministry official and union …
A drilling company says a worker killed in an offshore explosion was cleaning a piece of equipment during routine maintenance at its oil-and-gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Houston-based Fieldwood Energy LLC says another worker suffered “visible injury” and …
State investigators say a high-pressure valve blew off a pipe, killing a worker on a drilling rig in western Colorado earlier this month. The accident report filed with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission says the valve struck 34-year-old …
A 59-year-old Limington man has been killed in a construction accident in Freeport, Maine. Police say Scott MacDonald and two other employees of Coastal Landscape, Construction and Snow Services were installing granite steps Tuesday morning when the accident occurred. WLBZ-TV …
Joel Trujillo was arrested on charges of violating a stop work order and a third-degree felony workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly failing to provide adequate coverage to employees of his Naples-based constriction company, K.C. Tile and Marble, according to an …
Police say a Texas construction worker at a site in College Station has died after being pinned to the ground by two 1,500-pound, 20-feet-long shoring panels. Police say 49-year-old Armando Gonzalez of Bryan died Wednesday afternoon as crews were working …
Authorities say a worker at a southern New Jersey recycling business was killed when he fell through the roof of the multistory building. Camden County prosecutors say the 50-year-old Franklinville man was cleaning the roof when he fell around 8:30 …
Police say a man working at a northern Indiana highway construction site was killed when a hillside gave way and buried him. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Department says 30-year-old Arthur Kerns died in Friday afternoon’s collapse, which occurred just north …
A lawsuit claims a worker at a Chicago-area factory died after being sprayed with a chemical solution and that the company failed to get him medical attention. Relatives of Carlos Centeno Sr. filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Cook County Circuit …