A federal jury has sided against ConAgra Foods Inc. and a subcontractor in awarding roughly $181 million in damages to three workers severely injured in a 2010 explosion at a southern Illinois grain elevator. Omaha, Neb.-based ConAgra, one of the …
Eighteen Arkansas residents died in floods last year, the most in any state in the nation but fewer than in the year before, the National Weather Service said. The deaths happened in March through May. Six were in Benton County, …
While 2011 marked the fourth deadliest year on record for tornadoes in the United States, Texas was spared tornado-related fatalities and recorded fewer-than-average number of such storms. Not so Alabama, which led all other states in the number of tornadoes …
Louisiana State Police report nine traffic-related fatalities so far this year. Out of those seven of eight people who died in motor vehicle crashes were not wearing seat belts. A ninth fatality involved a motorcycle. In a recent checkpoint in …
Private industry employers in Texas reported a 5.8 percent decrease in nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work during 2010 for a total of 56,720. With the 2010 decrease, Texas has seen a decline in such workplace …
Eighty-seven on-duty firefighters from 31 states lost their lives as the result of 83 fatal incidents that occurred in 2010. Fifty-six of those who died were volunteer, not career, firefighters. This is the second consecutive year the number has gone …
