March 21, 2024
A Houston, Texas-area contractor is facing more than a quarter million dollars in fines after a federal investigation found the company’s willful regard for required safety procedures contributed to a teenager’s death when a a 15-foot trench wall collapsed on …
July 18, 2022
A construction worker in suburban Detroit died last Friday after a bulldozer struck him, police said. A man was standing outside his dump truck around 11 a.m. while a bulldozer moved pieces of concrete that had been broken up, Chesterfield …
June 21, 2022
Two construction workers died after a trench collapsed on top of them in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, and one of their bodies was found 9 feet underground roughly 12 hours later. St. Paul Deputy Fire Chief Roy …
June 14, 2022
One person died in a construction accident in Boston last Thursday morning and a second person was taken to the hospital, police said. Officers responded to the city’s Seaport District at about 5:30 a.m. for reports of an accident, Officer …
September 1, 2020
Two construction workers have died after an accident at the future site of an Amazon fulfillment center in Virginia. Suffolk city officials say the accident occurred Saturday afternoon at Northgate Commerce Parkway. News outlets report that there was a structural …
May 22, 2020
Rocks crushed two workers to death in a trench collapse at the site of town homes under construction in Mississippi. The workers were in the trench laying pipe for sewer lines when it collapsed Tuesday morning, Starkville Fire Chief Charles …
May 10, 2018
An analysis by a Tennessee newspaper has found that a decline in safety inspections and ignored safety rules have led to an increase in worker deaths during Nashville’s housing boom. Citing state and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration data, …
September 25, 2017
Two construction workers, one of them a father of five children, fell to their deaths at separate building sites on Thursday. The first death occurred in the morning at a residential high-rise construction site in the financial district. Juan Chohillo …
August 30, 2016
The head of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration says a spike in on-the-job fatalities last month is “alarming.” TOSHA administrator Steve Hawkins tells WPLN-FM four of the 10 deaths in July were on construction sites. Most of the …