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Safety

Worker dies following accident on UNLV campus

A man who had just begun his construction career was killed on a Las Vegas jobsite recently. According to a report from the Las Vegas Sun, 27-year-old Joshua Meade was critically injured in a jobsite accident on the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus on the morning of September 23. Authorities have not released the specifics on […]

October 7, 2015

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Worker crushed in equipment accident on Nashville jobsite

A worker near Nashville was killed recently when he was crushed in an equipment accident. According to a report from WSMV TV, 44-year-old Arnold Russell was killed September 21 while operating “a piece of equipment that sorts block” on a jobsite in Antioch. Police tell the station Russell was apparently leaning over a “danger zone,” and […]

September 28, 2015

Safety

Worker dies after suffering possible electrocution in San Antonio

A construction worker who died last week in San Antonio after co-workers found him unconscious on the job is believed to have been electrocuted. According to a report from the San Antonio Express-News, on September 17 workers at the construction site of a new high school in the area realized they had not seen the man […]

September 25, 2015

Safety

Worker killed in 16-story fall on Chicago jobsite

The death of a construction worker in a high fall from a Chicago jobsite is being investigated as a possible suicide. According to a report from the Hyde Park Herald, the unidentified 38-year-old worker died September 14 after suffering a fall from the roof of an unfinished 16-story apartment complex in the Hyde Park community. Chicago police […]

September 24, 2015

Roadbuilding

Forklift accident claims life of teenage construction worker on Bong Bridge

An 18-year-old Wisconsin construction worker died Monday following a forklift accident on the Bong Bridge, which connects Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Duluth News Tribune reported that Kelsey Hagenson died at the hospital after suffering “multiple blunt force injuries” in an accident involving a pedestrian and a forklift. Another was injured during the accident at 7 a.m. on […]

September 23, 2015

Safety

Steel worker killed in 40-foot fall in Massachusetts

A steel worker was killed after suffering a high fall from a Massachusetts jobsite earlier this month. According to a report from WPRI TV, 24-year-old Nicholas Dumont fell about 40 feet while performing steel work September 4 at a future beverage processing plant located at the Myles Standish Industrial Complex in Taunton. Suffolk Construction, the general […]

September 23, 2015

Safety

Contractor killed when deck collapses during concrete pour in Mississippi

A floor collapse of a restaurant being built near the Jourdan River in Mississippi claimed the life of a contractor earlier this month. According to a report from the Sun Herald, 54-year-old Gary Berthelot, the president of Berthelot Design/Construction Inc. was killed when when a raised deck for a new restaurant overlooking the river collapsed on top […]

September 22, 2015

Safety

Construction worker found dead beneath home in Austin

Two days after a construction worker was discovered beneath a home in Texas, authorities determined his death was due to electrocution. According to a report from the Austin American-Statesman, workers at a home on Grayson Lane in East Austin, where it appears renovations were taking place, noticed that their co-worker, 51-year-old Rafael Torres-Leyva, was missing on September […]

September 17, 2015

Roadbuilding

Worker struck and killed by dump truck in Tampa work zone

A construction worker doing pavement work died last week after he was hit by a dump truck. According to WFLA, 26-year-old Kimbrough Haines III was working on Veterans Expressway in Tampa late Wednesday night when the dump truck he was standing behind began to back up. Haines was hit by the truck and stuck underneath. […]

September 16, 2015

Safety

Worker killed in retaining wall collapse in New York City

One worker was killed and two others injured in a retaining wall collapse in New York City earlier this month. According to a report from the New York Times, 19-year-old Fernando Vanegas was working on a Brooklyn jobsite where crews were converting a one-story commercial building into a five-story building with residential units. On September 4, a […]

September 15, 2015

Safety

Worker killed in fall from scaffolding on NYC jobsite

A construction worker on New York City’s Upper East side was killed last week after suffering a fall. According to a report from the New York Daily News, 30-year-old Juan Cerezo was working as part of a crew performing renovations to the Sherman Towers on East 76th Street. Cerezo was working on the building’s facade from scaffolding about […]

September 10, 2015

Roadbuilding

Road worker injured while placing cones on highway in Hawaii

A road worker in Oahu, Hawaii, was injured last week after he fell while placing orange safety cones along a highway. According to Hawaii News Now, the road worker was seriously injured September 4 at about 5:40 a.m. when he fell from a road crew truck that had been contracted to do work on Kalanianaole Highway. The […]

September 10, 2015