Recent Posts in Construction Accident Category
Posted on Aug 2, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Gene Peterson, an 81-year-old Fort Dodge, Iowa man, died when he lost control of his pickup truck and hit the back of a parked excavator in a construction zone in Fort Dodge, reports say. Peterson was ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
As they tried to escape a deep, water-filled hole at a Queens, NY waste transfer plant, three workers were killed as they were overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes. The victims, including a father and ...
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Posted on May 2, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Last week a demolition worker suffered fatal injuries after being trapped underneath a 1,000 pound section of concrete slab during a demolition. The building being demolished was the historic 1965 ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A Belmont, SC worker died Friday after the forklift he was driving fell on top of him as he unloaded pallets from an 18-wheeler. The incident occurred at the Parkdale Mills plant at 103 E. Woodlawn ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
An underage teenage asphalt worker was killed as a load of hot asphalt slid from a truck and buried him in a mound of hot tar and asphalt last month in Canada. After the accident, it took about 15 ...
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Posted on Jun 1, 2010 By Houston Injury Attorney
Ian Delmar was killed recently in a downtown Phoenix, AZ construction site when he apparently fell through a ventilation shaft after a covering had come loose, said a Fire Deptment spokesman. A crane ...
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