Wyoming’s workplace safety office is adopting new safety rules for oil and gas drilling during a year in which accidents have killed five of the industry’s workers in the state. Wyoming consistently ranks among the most dangerous states for workers, …
One worker is dead and another is missing after they were apparently overcome by fumes while working on a sewer line in North Texas, emergency officials said Thursday. Fairview fire Chief Dick Price said the dead man’s body was found …
Police say a Connecticut worker has died after falling up to 60 feet at a Stamford construction site. Stamford police Capt. Richard Conklin said the man, who is in his 30s and from Danbury, was working on a roof at …
Authorities are investigating the death of a drilling company employee at a site near Eldorado. The accident occurred Thursday afternoon at a site owned by Big Giant Drilling. Jackson County Sheriff Roger Levick told the Altus Times the man was …
The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana says a 22-year-old Gulf Island Fabrication employee died when he was hit in the head by a cable that came loose while moving metal sheet piling. The Courier reports that Mark Naquin of …
The state has cited Norfolk, Va., for 19 serious safety violations stemming from the death of a city worker who was crushed inside a recycling truck. A report from the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry says the violations include …
Officials say a Bath Iron Works employee is hospitalized in serious condition after a tire he was changing exploded at the shipyard. Bath Fire Chief Steve Hinds said the man was taken to Maine Medical Center with severe facial trauma …
The wife of a Washington sanitation worker fatally shot last year at a Department of Public Works lot a has sued the city. Larry Hutchins of Suitland, Md., was killed Oct. 13 in a shooting that also wounded another worker. …
Indiana labor officials have waived a proposed fine against the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) over the death of an employee who was killed on the job when a co-worker backed a dump truck over him. The Occupational Safety and …
A California oil field worker has been killed when a support beam collapsed during construction of a new drilling rig in Ventura County. Senior deputy medical examiner Crain Stevens tells the Ventura County Star that 34-year-old Oscar Zamudio of Bakersfield …