A fire is currently burning out of control at an apartment complex currently under construction at West Dallas and Montrose in Houston. There is no word yet on injuries, but one construction worker was rescued from the third floor and potentially another worker was sighted on the roof. It is clear that the complex will be…
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Workers who maintain cellphone towers in Texas and other states are at an increased risk of workplace injury and death, according to new information from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. That group is attempting to crack down on employer negligence that has reportedly led to injurious and fatal workplace accidents at cellphone tower sites….
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The federal government has failed Texas’ oil field workers. New information from an investigative report out of Houston shows that about two in five oil field deaths occur in Texas, with 65 victims dying from fatal oil-field workplace accidents in 2012 alone. If you thought the workplace fatality rate was abysmal — and it is,…
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A Texas-based utility company is facing $7,000 in fines after an employee death that occurred during the summer. The workplace accident occurred in August in Eugene, Oregon, when the 31-year-old worker fell from the basket of a boom lift. The man plunged to the ground from a height of about 25 feet and was hospitalized…
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One worker was killed and another seriously hurt at a wrecker service in Amarillo on February 7 when a pickup truck fell from a forklift. The workers had been using the forklift to lift the truck while they worked on it. It is certainly unsafe to work under cars and trucks that are lifted and…
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On January 22, 2014, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a new regulation which enables FMCSA to shut down trucking or bus companies that “show egregious disregard for safety compliance, permit persons who have shown egregious disregard for safety compliance to exercise controlling influence over their operations, or operate multiple entities under common…
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The law firm of is investigating the tragic death of Jose Dario Juarez, whose body was recovered from the Brazos River following a construction accident on a pedestrian bridge that leads to Baylor University’s brand new $250 million football stadium. The stadium is scheduled to open later this year. The construction platform Juarez was on…
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A man working under a Texas-based contractor has died after suffering serious injuries in Oregon. The 42-year-old man was working for Global Pacific Environmental. That company is performing work for Texas company Burton Construction at a government building in White City, Oregon. The construction project was located at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Southern Oregon…
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