North Georgia was the site of another fatality last Saturday after a man got trapped by lumber at a Rabbittown store in Hall County. Fire Marshal Scott Cagle said the 37-year old employee was pronounced dead at the scene after the shelf he was putting lumber on gave way.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office determined the [...]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) expressed its concern about the increasing number of transportation accidents caused by fatigue. Just recently, they disclosed that fatigue was the probable cause of the 2005 Wisconsin collision that killed 5 people and injured 35 others.
Two Vehicles, One Major Collision
The collision involved a motorcoach and a truck-tractor semitrailer. [...]

Train passengers and employees can now expect better safety with the much-awaited reforms on rail safety rules getting approved last Thursday. At least this is true for Los Angeles as the board of Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unanimously approved the adoption of new safety measures.

The September 12 train crash that killed [...]

Just last week, another occupational accident left a worker suffering from severe burn injuries. This happened while he was filling a tank of a chainsaw at the Martin Luther King Jr. on Mesa Drive. The burns covered 50% of the worker’s legs. He was flown to the UCSD Medical Center right after [...]

Wednesday is voting day for Washington as the House is expected to finalize a deal that merges different rail safety bills passed by legislators. The deal would create the first major updates on rail safety rules since the adoption of the Federal Railroad Safety Authorization Act of 1994.

A provision of the deal requires the [...]

This week looks like one of the busiest for the Los Angeles Council as members struggle to come up with a final deal that best addresses improvements in railroad safety.
This hustle was spawned by several train wrecks in the past, the latest of which was the collision between a freight train and [...]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Department Labor are investigating on yet another fall-related construction site fatality. Just last week, a man in Chicago died of serious injuries after falling through a roof hole.
The man was identified as Manuel Villagomez, 47, an employee of the Mathews Roofing Co. He was working [...]

Just yesterday, a worker in a Branchburg factory suffered injuries after he was sprayed with 500-degree molten plastic. He works for Newton Tool and Manufacturing, a factory in the business of creating plastic moldings.
The victim was fixing a machine when hot plastic suddenly sprayed on his face and arms. He was immediately rushed to the [...]

Tragedy, they say, is the mother of change. Once again this adage is proven true with the recent train crash that killed 26 passengers in Los Angeles. On Friday, a head-on collision happened between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train. Among the 134 people injured, 39 were in critical condition. [...]

Another fall caused the death of a 65-year old worker recently. This time, the accident involved a scaffold in a plant in Baltimore County, Maryland. The worker, identified as Robert George Fuchs, was removing coal debris from a conveyor belt when he fell from a scaffold. He sustained multiple injuries from [...]