Recent Posts in Workplace Accident Category
Posted on May 8, 2013 By Arnold & Itkin
On April 23, police noticed deep cracks in a busy Bangladeshi garment factory and ordered it evacuated. Instead, officials at the factories operating inside the building ignored the order and kept ...
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Posted on May 3, 2013 By Arnold & Itkin, LLP
Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. (otherwise known as Formosa Plastics) was founded in 1978 and is a large supplier for petrochemicals and plastic resins. This company is quickly expanding and ...
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Posted on May 3, 2013 By Arnold & Itkin, LLP
Yet another incident at a Texas plant has occurred, injuring those working in the area. News reports state that Thursday, May 2, 2013 a fire started at the South Texas petrochemical plant, causing the ...
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Posted on Apr 18, 2013 By Arnold & Itkin, LLP
Yesterday morning in Beaumont, Texas, a flash fire at the ExxonMobil refinery started. Though the fire occurred in a unit that was closed down for maintenance, there were still a dozen workers who ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2013 By Arnold & Itkin
On Wednesday evening, April 17, 2013, a major explosion took place after a fertilizer plant had caught fire in the town of West, Texas – about 20 miles north of Waco. Emergency crews from all ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2013 By Arnold & Itkin, LLP
Today, there are 1.8 million miles of gas delivery lines running underneath the earth throughout the United States, traveling below almost every town and city in our country. For this reason, the ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2013 By Arnold & Itkin, LLP
A steel plant explosion in St. Louis, Missouri resulted in the injury of at least 9 victims who were working on the site. According to federal workplace safety officials there were at least 2 victims ...
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Posted on Oct 3, 2012 By Arnold & Itkin
The ExxonMobil plant covers 5 square miles of Baytown, Texas and just this evening one of the columns of the plant caught fire, creating a dangerous threat to the employees as well as the surrounding ...
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Posted on May 24, 2012 By Houston Injury Attorney
With all the dangers inherent in oil and gas retrieval work, new evidence has emerged that the majority of industry deaths occur in highway accidents. The reason behind this surprising statistic is ...
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Posted on May 22, 2012 By Houston Injury Lawyer
A new study published in Science magazine says that randomized inspections conducted by the Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) improves safety in high risk industry jobs without ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2012 By Industrial Injury Lawyer
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has recently launched a campaign to raise awareness about "Struck-By" accidents. These types of injuries typically occur in industrial ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2012 By Industrial Injury Lawyer
An industrial worker was killed in an accident last Thursday that took place at a Berkeley metal and tool manufacturing plant. The accident was caused when a metal grinding wheel struck him in the ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2012 By Industrial Injury Lawyer
Cranes are of vital importance to many industries, particularly offshore work, transport operations, and construction businesses. Widely publicized crane accidents in Houston, Miami, Las Vegas and New ...
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Posted on Jan 16, 2012 By Industrial Injury Lawyer
No harmful gases were released and no injuries were reported in the small fire that took place at a Springfield Township chemical plant on Sunday morning. All employees were evacuated and the ...
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Posted on Jan 9, 2012 By Industrial Accident Lawyer
A demolition worker from Missoula County is fighting for his life after an industrial accident at the old Smurfit Stone Mill in Montana. The man was scrapping a tank at the mill on Tuesday evening ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2012 By Industrial Accident Lawyer
On early Wednesday morning, January 4, an employee was involved in a forklift accident while working at an industrial warehouse complex. The employee died at the scene of the accident after being hit ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2012 By Nationwide Industrial Accident Lawyer
A Fall River man was killed on December 16 th when his arm became entangled in a grinding machine while working at Tribe Mediterranean Foods Plant in Taunton, Massachusetts. The worker, age 28, was ...
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Posted on Dec 19, 2011 By Industrial Injury Attorney
An industrial setting poses a variety of opportunities for serious eye injuries. Hazardous equipment and toxic chemicals have the potential to cause serious damage to the eyes that may result in a ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By Industrial Injury Attorney
Four employees of Polymer Partners LLC were injured during a flash fire Wednesday at the Polymer Partners plant in Henderson Kentucky. Polymer Partners had previously been fined $26,650 by state labor ...
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Posted on Dec 5, 2011 By Industrial Injury Lawyer
A man who was injured while working at the Jones County Cotton Gin on Tuesday died of his injuries later that evening. The 62-year-old man from Trenton was rushed to Pitt County Memorial Hospital ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Industrial Accident Lawyer
Police are investigating a fatal industrial accident at Sadoff and Rudoy Industries, a scrap metal processing company. Sadoff and Rudoy Industries employs over 220 workers in six scrap metal ...
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Posted on Nov 4, 2011 By Industrial Injury Attorney
On Wednesday evening, November 2, a teenager died at the supply yard where he was employed. Around 7 p.m., emergency personnel were call to the site after C.D. was run over by a tractor-trailer. A ...
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