Trenching & Excavation Accidents #7 updated on 05/06/2010 Trapped worker dies despite emergency response By RYAN GILLIS, Journal Staff Writer 8/29/2003 WELLSVILLE — Emergency crews from around the area converged on Wellsville Thursday after a worker became trapped while digging near a gym on Wells Avenue extension. Despite the number of people responding to the accident scene, the victim did not...

Trenching & Excavation Accidents #6 updated on 05/06/2010 UPDATE OSHA: Lack Of Shoring Could Have Contributed To Deadly Cave-In May 2, 2003  OKLAHOMA CITY — A man died Thursday when he was trapped for more than an hour underground after a cave-in at a construction site in the western part of the city. Marvin Young, 30, was helping connect a new sewer line to the city sewer line in a...

Trenching & Excavation Accidents #5 updated on 05/06/2010 Two labourers die as trench caves in Express News Service Ahmedabad, January 24 TWO labourers died when the trench they were digging near Bhilwas area of Sardarnagar here, caved in on Friday afternoon. They were laying a sewerage pipeline for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The deceased have been identified as Suresh Bhanji (25)...

Trenching & Excavation Accidents #4 updated on 05/06/2010 UPDATE, Trench victim talks By Rachael Ruiz (Kent County, October 23, 2002, 6:10 p.m.) A Sparta man is home and feeling good tonight. The same man who was trapped in a construction trench in Grand Rapids Township for more than two hours yesterday. 32 year old Keith Zwyghuizen has a few reminders of what he calls the scariest experience of...

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 Deputy Coroner Bruce Goin, the victim is identified as Charles...

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 tripped a circuit breaker and the operator...

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 a.m., after a backhoe...

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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 when a passer-by in an SUV hit one of the...

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 two trucks on state Route 8 Tuesday morning when one...

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 when one of the men fell from a forklift) Worker dies from...

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 a worker escaped with his life after being crushed by a truck. In both...