Fire officials say a suspected steam explosion in a factory furnace in Buffalo has injured four workers. The Buffalo News reports that all four were burned in the blast around 6:15 a.m. Tuesday in the Luvata Buffalo plant. It wasn’t …
Authorities won’t be able positively to identify the three workers killed in an oilfield explosion in eastern Wyoming until autopsies are performed on them, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. The blast occurred Monday at an oil production site on a …
Three workers burned when the oil rig they were working on in western North Dakota exploded last month have filed a lawsuit against seven companies, saying the companies created hazardous work conditions. Thirty nine-year-old Jeff Morton, 53-year-old Andrew Rohr and …
Authorities say three people were injured when the roof of a home collapsed in Atlanta. Atlanta fire officials say construction workers were on the roof doing renovations to the two-story, wood-frame house on Flat Shoals Avenue when the collapse occurred …
A former worker is seeking class status for a lawsuit against Yarnell’s Ice Cream, claiming the Searcy company didn’t give workers the required 60-day notice that the plant would close. The family-owned company, in business for more than 75 years, …
Approximately 300 people at a Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in northwest Arkansas were evacuated and 173 were sent to local hospitals after an accidental mixture of chemicals created a chlorine gas inside part of the facility. Company spokesman Gary …
Retail store operators may want to sit down for this one — if they can find a chair. Nearly every national chain is under legal attack in California for failing to provide “suitable seating” for cashiers and other employees who …
Two employees have died from injuries received in a fire at a Gallatin, Tenn. factory. That brings the total number of workers killed in accidents at the Hoeganaes Corp. plant this year to four. Vanderbilt University Medical Center spokeswoman Jennifer …
Louisiana State Police say two workers were overcome by a chemical and died at a chlorine factory being built south of Plaquemine. Lt. Doug Cain says that about 1 p.m. Sunday, troopers received a call on their Hazmat hotline that …
Fire officials say several construction workers had to be taken to the hospital in central Pennsylvania after a piece of machinery filled the building they were working in with carbon monoxide fumes. West York Fire Department Capt. Stew Frey says …