Trenching & Excavation Accidents #3 updated on 05/06/2010 Trench collapses, workman dies By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH ~ Associate Editor What began as a rescue operation this morning ended more than two hours later after city and county crews extracted a man who was buried when the trench he was working in collapsed. According to Butler County…...
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Trenching & Excavation Accidents #2 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Backhoe Severs buried Electrical Power CABLE On February 12, 2002, at the construction site for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a backhoe operator struck and severed a buried 240-volt temporary power cable with his backhoe bucket. This…...
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Trenching & Excavation Accidents #1 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Gas leak forces evacuation of several homes CUMBERLAND — Several houses on Marshall Avenue were evacuated Tuesday morning after contractors working on a water main accidentally ruptured an underground natural gas line. A police officer working traffic detail reported the break at 11:23…...
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Road Work Accidents Page #2 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Worker Injured In Accident (deputies are still investigating a mid-morning accident that injured a worker standing on the side of the road – the accident happened around 9:00 a.m. along Highway 43 – county dispatcher says an 18-wheeler was in the middle of unloading…...
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Road Work Accidents Page #1 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 UPDATE Kentucky Construction Worker Dies After Accident Man Suffers Injuries Monday A Kentucky road worker has died from injuries he suffered while working on a street in Villa Hills, Ky., a suburb of Cincinnati. Frank Chandler, 58, of Independence, Ky., was standing between…...
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #8 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Worker hurt after falling from forklift (a man is in hospital with serious head injuries after falling from a forklift – the accident occurred at a building – two workers were removing scrap metal from the ceiling of a building that was being demolished…...
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #7 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 UPDATE Firms fined over forklift accidents Aug 29 2003 By Elwyn Roberts TWO North Wales firms yesterday ended up with bills of nearly £20,000 for injuries to workers caused by forklift truck accidents. One woman had a broken leg, while in a separate case…...
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #6 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 UPDATE Worker dies after backhoe accident Thursday, May 22, 2003 By ASHANTI M. ALVAREZ STAFF WRITER WEST PATERSON – A construction worker accidentally run over by a backhoe on a work site this week has died, police said. Juan Pupo, 53, of Paterson died…...
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #5 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Worker has leg crushed by steel Jan 25, 2003, 3:15pm A worker was flown to hospital with serious leg injuries after he was crushed under a steel coil weighing 200kgs. Wayne Miles, aged 31, was involved in the accident at Steel Processing Midland Ltd…...
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #4 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Excavator overturns, injures Waterville man By AMY CALDER, Staff Writer Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. WINSLOW — A Waterville man clearing brush was injured Thursday when an excavator driven by another man flipped on its side near the Sebasticook River and the bucket struck him…....
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #3 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010 Dump truck falls into ravine; driver suffers injuries The Baltimore Sun A Taneytown man was in serious but stable condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after the dump truck he was driving plunged into a ravine near Anne Arundel Medical Center’s Sajak Pavilion…...
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