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...

OSHA’s Trenching Accident Investigation Summaries Trenching & Excavation Accidents #1 Trenching & Excavation Accidents #2 Trenching & Excavation Accidents #3 Trenching & Excavation Accidents #4 Trenching & Excavation Accidents #5 Trenching & Excavation Accidents #6 Trenching & Excavation Accidents #7 Trenching & Excavation Accidents #8 (most recent accidents)

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...

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 at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center on Tuesday,...

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 in Chasetown, Burntwood, at 12.15pm yesterday. Paramedics arrived on the Chasewater...

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. Nick Mansfield, 19, was taken by ambulance...

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 in Annapolis. The man, 41, suffered head,...