Slip, Trips, and Falls #5 updated 05/06/2010   Construction worker hurt in fall at casino site From Press staff reports ATLANTIC CITY – A construction worker fell off a ladder on a sub-roof at the Showboat Casino-Hotel Tuesday but escaped serious injury, police said. Craig Bauzenberger, 31, of Williamstown, fell about 15 feet as he was walking up the ladder carrying coffee, but suffered only...

Slip, Trips, and Falls #4 updated 05/06/2010   PCS worker dies in fall: Company, OSHA investigating By JUSTIN LANG A PCS Phosphate employee has died after falling from an elevated walkway on Thursday, said Mike Gwynn, PCS manager of public affairs. David Bowles, 46, had been with PCS for 24 years and worked as an operator at the Swift Creek Hemi Plant complex. Gwynn said that Bowles fell about 21 feet...

Slips, Trips and Falls Accidents #3 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010   Canaan iron worker falls to death on job site by ALAN CROWELL Staff Writer, Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc CANAAN – Family members remember a 41-year-old Canaan man who fell to his death at a Massachusetts construction site as a devoted family man and a hard worker. Clinton L. Lord died Wednesday after falling more than...

Slips, Trips, and Falls Accidents #2 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010   Accident injures man in police station construction A 30-year-old Wichita construction worker was injured at about 10:32 a.m. Monday, while working on the new Derby Police Station. Derby Police Lt. Tom Prunier reported Rufino Martinez fell while working on a scaffolding about six or seven feet from the ground. Reports indicate...

Slips, Trips, and Falls Accidents #1 This page was last updated on 05/06/2010   FIREMAN HURT IN TRAINING FALL By PHILIP MESSING September 2, 2001 — A firefighter suffered a broken arm yesterday when he fell from a ladder during training in Brooklyn. The Ladder Company 111 firefighter, whose name was not released, plunged 15 feet from a bucket atop a tower ladder during a drill at Stuyvesant and...

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Electrical Accidents #9 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010 Electrical Contractor Shocked (an electrical contractor suffered a shock and reportedly caught fire -vworker apparently touched a high-voltage line, but there’s no information about just how powerful the shock was – investigators are on the scene) Gilmer schools close after worker dies (the sole maintenance man, 47, for the...

Electrical Accidents #8 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010   OIL FIELD WORKER KILLED IN ELECTRICAL ACCIDENT STAFF August 21, 2003  KILGORE – An industrial accident claimed the life of a 22-year-old man Wednesday when a power line came in contact with a piece of oil field equipment on which he was working. Rusk County Sheriff Department officials said Juan Martin Jimenez was killed when...

Electrical Accidents #7 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010 College student electrocuted while painting  The Associated Press 7/16/03 2:35 PM ONEIDA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 21-year-old Michigan State University student has died after he hit his ladder against a primary power line while he was painting a house in Eaton County. Brad Hilberg of Alpena was electrocuted Tuesday when he tried...

Electrical Accidents #6 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010 Man hurt in Plas-Pak blast By FRANCIS McCABE Special to the Bulletin  NORWICH — A worker lay in critical condition Friday after an explosion at Plas-Pak Industries Inc. in the Norwich Industrial Park. An electrical short that occurred when a maintenance worker, Richard Couture, 48, of Thompson tried to change a circuit breaker...

Electrical Accidents #5 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010 UPDATE OPPD looking into work-site accidents BY NANCY GAARDER WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER  The Omaha Public Power District is in the midst of its second investigation in two months of a serious workplace accident involving apprentice line technicians. Last week, a lineman was critically burned when a live wire came in contact with the...

Electrical Accidents #4 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010   36,000-Volt Charge Critically Injures Roofer, Victim’s Body Burned More Than 30 Percent October 22, 2002 LOS ANGELES — A roofer was critically burned Tuesday by an electrical current of up to 36,000 votes, authorities said. The accident occurred when some metal he was removing from a Glassell Park building came in contact...