An oil refinery worker exposed to propane and acid at a Valero plant in Memphis, Tenn., died on Monday, officials said. He was the second person to die this year from an on-the-job injury. A worker died from injuries in …
A Farg, N.D., contractor faces $21,000 in proposed penalties for a construction incident that killed a 30-year-old man. The Forum reports that Trevor Skarphol of Fargo was killed in May when a 28-foot steel beam fell on him while he …
A worker at a Boone County, W.Va., coal mine is dead following an accident. Department of Commerce spokeswoman Leslie Fitzwater says the accident occurred around 4 a.m. Friday at Coal River Mining LLC’s Fork Creek No. 10 Mine. Fitzwater identified …
A Hawaii zip line tower collapsed because of weak soil, sending a worker plunging 200 feet to his death, concluded an investigation released Tuesday by the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Division …
Maryland Occupational Safety and Health officials say they’re investigating the death of a young man who fell from a utility vehicle at a minor-league baseball stadium in Hagerstown. The Herald-Mail reports that 18-year-old Mitchell Akers of Smithsburg died Wednesday, one …
The owner of a Brooklyn, N.Y., tortilla factory where a worker died after falling into a waist-high dough mixing machine has been arrested. Erasmo Ponce was charged with underpaying employees, falsifying business records, violating workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance laws. …
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 police report says the Big Island zip line tower that collapsed and sent a worker plunging to his death had experienced a similar collapse eight weeks prior. The report on the Sept. 21 accident that killed 36-year-old Ted Callaway …
Federal officials have fined a Minnesota company nearly $12,000 for safety violations after a worker died in a grisly construction accident near Aspen Highlands, Colo., in August. Thirty-nine-year-old Greg Watson of Minneapolis was killed after his safety cord got tangled …
Authorities say an industrial accident at a Southeast Texas port has killed a worker. A coroner says an autopsy has been scheduled Monday for 26-year-old Virgel James Stoker. The Galveston County Daily News reports the accident happened Saturday night at …