Blog Posts in August, 2010
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Posted on Aug 31, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A worker at Cabot Gas died this week after being hit in the head with a pipe at a natural gas rig in Dimock, Wyoming last month. The worker, 41-year-old Gregory Walker, of Colorado, died from his ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Texas jury awarded $82.5 million in damages to the family of a man who died in a 2007 explosion at Houston-based Hanover Compressions L.P., a natural gas processing plant in Hood County. The ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2010 By Accident Attorney
A 38-year-old dock worker died from carbon monoxide poisoning recently, as he was pressure-washing a freshwater tank on a fishing vessel, while five other dockworkers sustained exposures to carbon ...
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Posted on Aug 27, 2010 By Injury Attorney
Pablo Garcia, a 53-year-old longshoreman from Lakewood, CA, was struck and killed as he worked at Terminal Island in Long Beach, California last month. This marks the third such fatality in local ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2010 By Personal Injury lawyer
The employers of a dockworker's family, Virginia International Terminals Inc., has agreed to pay that family $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the surviving family members of a port worker ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2010 By Injury Lawyer
A two-year-old child almost drowned in a backyard pool earlier this month as the mother's boyfriend, who was watching the infant at the time, walked away to talk on his cell phone, reports say. The ...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A 16-year-old Huntington Beach girl is recovering in the hospital after nearly drowning while drinking alcohol in an apartment complex pool, say reports. The pool accident occurred earlier this month ...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A Delta Airlines mechanic was killed when the landing gear doors in the wheel well area of an Airbus A319 that was to depart to St. Louis at 7 AM somehow malfunctioned or activated and killed him. The ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2010 By Injury Lawyer
As oil continues to gush from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, another crisis this month nearly 50 years ago is being remembered. The C.P. Baker, a catamaran-type drilling barge had started to drill ...
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Posted on Aug 21, 2010 By Injury Attorney
A 24-year-old commercial fishing vessel skipper died when he got caught in a net and pulled into a deck winch. The recent incident occurred while a load of salmon was being pulled in while the skipper ...
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Posted on Aug 20, 2010 By Injury Attorney
One fisherman died after another fishing boat rear-ended his boat last month, throwing him into the Cal-Sag Channel in Illinois, reports say. The Orland Park man, whose name was not released, drowned ...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A commercial fishing skipper's decision to make a mayday call moments before the boat sank probably saved the lives of his crew, but also may have cost him his own life. Reports say that Captain ...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
An Australian commercial fisherman, considered a legend in his hometown of Buderim, Queensland, was accidentally killed after his jacket got caught in a spool of nets he had just cast earlier this ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
As he walked behind a truck, a an oil and gas "swamper" tripped as the truck was backing up with a load and was killed when the vehicle drove over him, reports say. The workplace accident occurred in ...
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Posted on Aug 16, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A crew member of a Qatargas time-chartered vessel died from injuries he sustained while boarding a service launch from the ship on which he had been working. The worker, who had just completed his ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
While moving a 660-pound, 5-foot coil of steel, a worker was killed when the coil fell on him and crushed him to death. The man, whose name wasn't immediately available, was about to wrap a chain ...
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Posted on Aug 14, 2010 By Injury Attorney
A worker at a stone fabrication shop was killed after being crushed by a 700-pound slab of granite while moving the stone to a storage rack. The accident occurred on a recent Saturday afternoon, while ...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2010 By Injury Attorney
After a cloud of toxic gas escaped from a factory, a worker who came in contact with the gas died, reports say. The worker, Paul Doyley, from Immingham, near London, was fatally injured when titanium ...
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Posted on Aug 12, 2010 By Injury Attorney
Three days before Thanksgiving last year, Taylor Woodall rode north on Interstate 985 on his Honda CBR 1000 RR motorcycle, a friend following in a Ford Mustang. About a mile north of Ga. Highway 20, ...
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Posted on Aug 11, 2010 By Injury Attorney
Chicago police officer Thomas Wortham IV was murdered last month by a group of three youths who tried to steal his new motorcycle. Wortham, who was reportedly at his parents' home when he was ...
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Posted on Aug 10, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A Marengo, Ohio man was sentenced to four years in prison for aggravated vehicular homicide in Knox County Common Pleas Court last month. Lester A. Moore, 37, was convicted of aggravated vehicular ...
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Posted on Aug 9, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A 61-year-old worker at the joint military base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst was killed last month in a motorcycle accident involving the motorcycle he was driving and an SUV, according to base authorities. ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
As some members of two-year-old Brandon Luna's family spent time making funeral arrangements following the toddler's tragic drowning death last month, others were complaining about the lack of a fence ...
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Posted on Aug 7, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
93-year-old Abraham Bosman died last month in an auto accident at Pleasant Drive and U.S. 1 in South Florida. The driver of the car in which Bosman rode was stopped at a stop sign at the intersection ...
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Posted on Aug 6, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
An Ohio man accused of drowning his wife in their bathtub almost two years ago faced retrial last month as jury selection marked the start of 29-year-old Ryan Widmer's ordeal. Widmer is accused of ...
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