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Roadbuilding
Ohio DOT releases video featuring mother of road worker killed to raise awareness of “Move Over” law
Mark Kiper had only been working his summer job as a seasonal employee at the Ohio Department of Transportation for two weeks when he was struck and killed by a vehicle. He was a high school valedictorian, college athlete and a dean’s list student, as his mother Joan explains in a new video from ODOT. She recalls that her son […]
October 22, 2015
Roadbuilding
South Carolina DOT worker dies after being backed over by dump truck
A South Carolina Department of Transportation worker died Tuesday after he was struck by a coworker-driven dump truck. According to WBTW, 51-year-old Henry Norris was walking to a piece of equipment on a jobsite when his coworker began to back up a dump truck. Norris was hit as his coworker was trying to back onto Mayberry Road in Darlington […]
October 21, 2015
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Roadbuilding
Worker dies after being struck by object falling from crane in Florida work zone
A Florida construction worker died Friday when an object fell 50 feet from a crane and struck him. According to WESH, 25-year-old Guillermo Solis, an employee of Lane Construction Corp., was working on a road widening and reconstruction project in Ocoee when the accident happened. “He was transported via ambulance to Health Central nearby. Unfortunately, […]
October 20, 2015
Safety
Worker killed while remote control steering rear dolly in concrete beam transport
A construction worker in Florida was killed recently in an accident that occurred as crews were moving heavy concrete beams down an Interstate entrance ramp. According to a report from the Naples News, on October 5, crews were assisting three tractor trailers, each hauling 94-ton concrete beams, as they moved to a highway work zone on […]
October 19, 2015
Safety
Worker killed in building collapse during demolition in New Jersey
A worker part of a crew carrying out the demolition of a strip mall in New Jersey was killed recently when a section of roof collapsed on top of him. According to a report from the Asbury Park Press, 52-year-old Raymond Crosby was killed September 25 in the collapse, which occurred as an excavator was being used […]
October 14, 2015
Safety
Worker saved by co-workers from 2nd jobsite cardiac arrest shows importance of CPR training
A 55-year-old construction worker who has twice gone into sudden cardiac arrest while on the job was saved both times by co-workers with CPR training. According to Colorado’s 9 News, the first episode occurred in August 2012, when the man, who asked that he not be identified, collapsed and was found by co-workers unresponsive and […]
October 13, 2015
Roadbuilding
Construction worker killed during crack sealing on Michigan Interstate
One road worker was killed and another was in serious condition Sunday after a vehicle hit them while they performed crack sealing in Michigan. According to the Detroit Free Press, the two Michigan Department of Transportation contract workers were performing maintenance on Interstate 94 when a vehicle entered a construction lane where the workers were doing crack sealing. The […]
October 13, 2015
Safety
Wall collapse kills worker on unpermitted Chicago jobsite
A wall collapse that recently killed a worker on a Chicago jobsite has building and law enforcement officials looking for answers. According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, 46-year-old Daniel Miller was killed by injuries he sustained when a brick wall collapsed on top of him in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood September 24. Miller was pulled from […]
October 8, 2015
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
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
Roadbuilding
Second Caltrans worker killed by suspected drunk driver in less than a week
Just six days after a California Department of Transportation contractor was killed by a likely impaired driver near San Diego, another worker has died under similar circumstances in Oakland. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Caltrans worker Miguel Delacruz was working on a paving project Saturday on Interstate 580 when a vehicle drove through a […]
September 22, 2015
Roadbuilding
Compactor operator killed in work zone rollover in North Dakota
An operator of a compactor in a North Dakota work zone was killed earlier this month in a rollover accident. According to a report from the Williston Herald, a 63-year-old man was operating the compactor in a work zone on Williams County Road 8 when the machine “came too close to the edge of the road, slid […]
September 21, 2015
Roadbuilding
Caltrans worker dies after being hit by suspected impaired driver
A California Department of Transportation worker died Monday afternoon after he was struck by an SUV being driven by a man suspected of being under the influence of drugs. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the man was making repairs sprinklers on Interstate 15 near Escondido, California, when an SUV attempting to get into the southbound lanes of the Interstate […]
September 18, 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
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