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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 Jul 16, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Chad Elgert, 35, a North Sioux City Speedy Rooter sewer company employee, remains in critical condition at a local hospital after he tried to rescue another worker in the same sewer. Elgert had been ...
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Posted on Feb 23, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
According to recently published reports, U.S. coal-fired power plant pollution is linked to the deaths of as many as 34,000 people each year. The study, released by the Civil Society Institute in ...
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Posted on Feb 22, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
According to reports, the Federal Aviation Administration has approved a regulation that requires operators of older US-registered Boeing 737s to install new warning systems within three years that ...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
An Ohio grand jury has indicted a southwest Ohio company, United Oil Recovery Services Inc. and its environmental health and safety manager, with involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, criminal ...
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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 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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