The federal circuit appeals court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) has asked D.C’s highest court for guidance on the standard of negligence in a case involving a noticeably intoxicated man who died after falling from a train platform into …
Greenwood city employee has died of injuries suffered in December fall, says Mayor Carolyn McAdams. McAdams tells the Greenwood Commonwealth that 52-year-old Johnny Holt died this past week in a Jackson, Miss., hospital. McAdams says Holt, employed in the public …
Police say a worker at a New Hampshire construction site has died from a head injury after falling at least 15 feet from a lift. Police in Hanover said 53-year-old Dana Lowe, who died Wednesday, was at a construction site …
A Florida teenager who plummeted 100 feet from a Wisconsin amusement park ride 17 months ago has returned to the state to promote an expansion project at the hospital that likely saved her life. Hospital staff and others watched in …
A McLouth woman is suing a Lawrence, Kansas, residential home for the disabled over her son’s death in a fall. Josephine VanDruff claims in the lawsuit that an employee of Community Living Opportunity did not follow accepted care standards while …
The Nebraska Supreme Court has released a sign company from liability for an accident that injured an employee who fell 30 feet and landed head first on a gymnasium floor. In a ruling released Friday, the court upheld the liability …
Federal workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a roofer who fell from a southwestern Illinois home. Authorities say 36-year-old Joel Ponce-Luna of O’Fallon died at a hospital Wednesday shortly after the fall at a job site in his …
A lot of people who have heard the story over the years still don’t believe it, Wallace Goza says of his surviving a fall from the top of an electrical pole 48 years ago. Now an unlikely epilogue has been …
Police say a North Carolina teenager has died of injuries he sustained after falling from a fourth-floor dormitory window at a Connecticut university. West Haven police say 19-year-old Samuel Milano of Cary, N.C., died of his injuries at a local …
Authorities say a rock-climbing tourist has suffered serious head injuries in a fall in the Southern California desert. Thirty-six-year-old Yosuke Komiya of Yokohama, Japan, fell 25 feet (7.6 meters) Sunday afternoon in Joshua Tree National Park. He was flown to …