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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 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 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 Jun 15, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A study conducted by the Cancer Prevention Institute of California involving 80 Vietnamese women from 20 different salons in California claims that Toulene, a solvent used in nail salons can cause ...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Florida resident was killed following a pedestrian traffic accident late earlier this month in Daytona Beach. Kimberly J. Staton, 36 of Port Orange ran into traffic and into the path of a southbound ...
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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 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 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 24, 2011 By
Austin Police Officers responded to a serious injury collision in the 4800 block of Southwest Parkway, after it appears a senior citizen struck a tree along a roadside. A preliminary investigation ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Four Saint Joseph's University students were taken to the hospital emergency room after drinking Four Loko and Joose energy drinks. Reports say the Four Loko drinks caused students to experience ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Mark Hurd, Chief Executive of Hewlett-Packard Co., resigned suddenly over the summer following a sexual harassment claim which was filed against him by an outside contractor. Reports say that as HP ...
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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 Apr 3, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Dov Charney, chairman and chief executive officer of American Apparel, has been charged in a court filing by Irene Morales, a former manager of one of American Apparel's branches in New York City, ...
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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 Feb 26, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Massachusetts firefighter who became ill as the truck in which he rode sped to a fire died, reports say. Other firefighters on the truck that day noticed that Rehoboth Fire Department Firefighter ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
An investigation began in April into the drilling rig accident that took the life of a 35-year-old Big Spring, Texas man, reports say. OSHA officials will look into whether any safety standards were ...
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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 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 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 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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