Recent Posts in Workers' Compensation Category
Posted on Jul 18, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An unidentified female dockworker at the busy Port of Oakland, CA, who had just finished her night shift and was leaving the dock, was run over and lost both of her legs, reports say. The accident ...
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Posted on Jun 20, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Twenty-five-year-old Dallas Wiens, of Fort Worth, was a construction worker when he was badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago. He recently became the first person in the United ...
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Posted on Jun 19, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Houston police are investigating a fatal construction accident that occurred at the South Highway, also known as State Highway 288 on April 22nd. The victim, Manuel A. Seja, 47, of Houston, was ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Jordan Adams-Meckola died at the Miller Dwan Burn Center in Duluth, Iowa recently after a welding accident incident at school left severely burned and clinging to life. Reports say the school he ...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2011 By
A worker caught under a collapsed concrete slab at the old Galveston Flagship Hotel died of his injuries yesterday, say reports. The worker, Tauelangi Angilau, 65, of Salt Lake City, Utah, died ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The UN is currently dealing with a string of sexual harassment complaints within its own ranks, reports say. Several women who complained of harassment say their employment contracts weren't renewed, ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Richard Steinecke II, 21, of New Caney, who was injured last Friday morning by steel beams which had collapsed in a high school auditorium under construction has died, reports say. The worker was ...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A high school auditorium that was under construction collapsed last week, injuring three workers in the south-Texas city of Santa Fe. Emergency crews were called to the Santa Fe High School in the ...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A North Carolina machinist was killed earlier this month as a metal rod departed the high-speed lathe on which he worked, striking and killing him. The accident, which occurred at the Statesville ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A 21-year-old operator of the monorail at Walt Disney World died recently when the monorail he was piloting crashed into another train. Reports say the accident happened at the Transportation and ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A Kentucky machinist was killed last month when a generator malfunctioned during testing, allowing the air pressure inside the generator to pop a steel plate off its mounts, mortally striking the ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2010 By Accident Attorney
While trying to get a drilling rig running in Snyder, Texas Brandon Garrett was sliced in half by a motorized spool of steel cable, adding yet another fatality to an already dangerous profession. ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A huge explosion in rural Johnson County, about an hour southwest of Dallas, TX, killed one worker and injured seven others last month, reports say. The blast, which involved a massive explosion and ...
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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 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 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 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 Jul 22, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
Steven Lewenden, 34, was feeding paper into a machine when he was pulled in and trapped on a reeling drum. Eventually freed from the equipment by paramedics and taken to hospital, damage to Lewenden's ...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
According to published reports, the United Steelworkers Union of British Columbia has filed suit against forest company Weyerhaeuser, charging the company was criminally negligent in a tragic 2004 ...
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Posted on Jun 4, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Lawyer
An ironworker filed suit last month against Illinois Power Company, Power Maintenance and Constructors, Dynegy, Dynegy Midwest Corporation, and Illinova Corporation for injuries he sustained while ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2010 By Houston Car Accident Attorney
Josiah Tholberg, a 29-year-old Homer, Alaska man, died after the bucket of a front-end loader crushed him last month while he performed some welding work for East Road Services Inc. Tholberg, whose ...
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