Chinese labor arbitrators have ruled against the father of a Foxconn worker brain-damaged in a factory accident in southern China, in a case that puts more attention on the labour practices of Apple Inc’s largest contract manufacturer. The case involves …
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 …
Savannah police say a construction worker is dead and three others are injured after a road-repair crew was struck by a car in an upscale subdivision. Police spokesman Julian Miller said Monday the three injured construction workers and the driver …
North Carolina workplace safety investigators are looking into what killed a worker at a Jones County cotton gin. The Kinston Free Press reported Thursday that 62-year-old Dennis Foy of Trenton died from his injuries late Tuesday. State Labor Department spokesman …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Houston-based oil and gas contractor for two safety violations after a worker was electrocuted at a job site in Williston in May. Tom Deutscher with OSHA in …
An East Texas man may embrace cable or satellite television after dangling head-down from a TV aerial mast for three hours. Johnny Perry says he was working to dismantle a mast that had held a high aerial long used for …
A Gallatin metal powders factory where five workers died in flash fires earlier this year said in a statement Wednesday that it is improving safety at the plant. The Hoeganaes Corp. issued its statement hours after the release of a …
The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office says a construction worker is dead after he was run over by a piece of equipment near New Market. Cpl. Scott Blundell says 37-year-old David Garcia was pronounced dead at Shock Trauma in Baltimore shortly …
A worker died at a manufacturing plant in the southeast South Dakota city of Canton when he became caught in a machine. Officials at Adams Thermal Systems Inc. did not immediately identify the man who died Monday morning or go …
A new report says safety lapses and equipment failures contributed to the death of a Norfolk, Va., sanitation worker. Fifty-one-year-old Jerry Holton was crushed inside a recycling truck in February. The report by city safety officer Craig Watkins cites a …