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Monday, November 3, 2014Area:
Trenton-NJA freak accident at a construction site on Monday killed a Camden County, New Jersey, man after he was struck by a tape measure that fell 50 stories from a high-rise under construction in Jersey City, N.J. Gary Anderson, 58, of Somerdale, New Jersey, was delivering drywall to the downtown construction site about 8:40 a.m. when the tape measure fell off the belt of a worker on the top of the building. Anderson was not wearing a hard hat but had one inside his truck. He had stopped to lean into the open window of a vehicle to speak to someone when he was struck by the tape measure.
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Sunday, October 26, 2014Area:
Cincinnati, OHThe accident happened just after 7 p.m. Friday in the 3600 block of Oxford Reily Road in Butler County. The men fell from a 150-foot water tower they were painting when their scaffolding gave way, dropping them approximately 100 feet to the ground. The accident is under investigation.
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Monday, March 10, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYAccording to the Milton-Madison Bridge Project, crews closed the bridge around 2 a.m. Tuesday after a steel bearing, about four-feet in diameter, dislodged between the bridge and a pier. The project manager closed the bridge believing it is unsafe to cross. The worker was not seriously injured. The bridge was due to be reduced to one lane on Thursday and to close completely on Friday for about a week. Now, the bridge will remain closed until the new bridge is slid into place, a process that is scheduled to begin on Thursday.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014Two contractors doing maintenance work suffered burns when they were splashed with acid Monday at the Tesoro Corp. refinery near Martinez, an accident that occurred in the same processing unit where two workers were burned last month, officials said.
Sulfuric acid spilled on the two workers at 10:50 a.m. in the latest incident at the Golden Eagle Refinery at 150 Solano Way, said a Contra Costa County hazardous materials specialist.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014Area:
Detroit, MIInvestigations are under way after a Washington Township man was crushed in an industrial accident in Shelby Township today.
Erik Deighton, 23, was killed at Colonial Plastics, according to township police and a company statement.
“The Roberts’ family and employees of the Colonial Group Companies mourn the tragic death of their fellow employee and friend, Erik Deighton,” according to the company statement from Cheryl Paschall. “The company is conducting an investigation as to the cause of the accident. We have no further information at this time.”
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014Area:
New York, NYEight workers were seriously injured in a construction accident while working on a decrepit Brooklyn building Wednesday afternoon, officials and witnesses said.
The men fell from the third floor to the first floor of 1916 Prospect Place about 1 p.m., Fire Department officials said.
One neighbor says he warned the workers the house was unsound before they walked in Wednesday.
Some of the injured were taken to Kings County Hospital, a department spokesman said. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014Two workers were seriously injured after falling from scaffolding at a skyscraper under construction in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Thursday afternoon, a fire department spokeswoman said.
The incident was reported at about 2:20 p.m. at 350 Mission St., according to the fire chief's office.
The two workers were installing scaffolding at the site when it collapsed, sending one worker falling 40 feet and another worker falling about 30 feet, fire spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said.
They were both taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, Talmadge said.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014Area:
Hartford & New Haven, CTTwo men were injured this morning in a construction accident in South Windsor.
South Windsor Police said the injured men work for Folsom Construction, according to police, and they were on company property in the area of 140 Rye Street when the back of the dump truck went up into live wires.
Emergency crews responded.
The driver of the big rig was shocked when he got out of the truck and a coworker who went to help him was also shocked.
A customer of Andrews Oil Company saw sparks from the wire and mentioned it to the company, which called 911.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014A mechanic was crushed to death by a tractor in a workplace accident Thursday at a Volvo-owned construction equipment company in San Leandro, authorities said.
The man was working beneath a front loader that had been lifted up on jacks in a yard of Volvo Construction Equipment and Services at 1944 Marina Boulevard, said Aisha Knowles, a spokeswoman for the Alameda County Fire Department.
The vehicle slipped and fell on top of him around 9:30 a.m., Knowles said. Firefighters had to use a mechanical hoist to lift the tractor off the man. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014A man was killed and another badly injured in an industrial accident at a granite company facility in San Francisco Friday morning, authorities said.
City fire crews responding to a call around 10:15 a.m. at 1525 Cortland Ave. found two men trapped after a large slab of granite fell, pinning them in a container, said a San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman.