A slip-and-fall injury at a condominium complex in Pennsylvania illustrates how job-related injuries can occur almost anywhere depending upon the type of work in which a person is engaged. A contractor was involved in a workplace accident when he slipped on ice and...
Month: January 2014
Employee injured in Pennsylvania plant accident
A 26-year-old man was injured while working at a Harrison Township, Pennsylvania, plant. The workplace injury occurred after a piece of equipment fell on top of the man while he was working. The accident occurred at about 4 p.m on Jan. 17 as the man was standing on...
Man killed at work in collapse of road salt pile
A 51-year-old man was killed on Jan. 2 when a pile of road salt collapsed onto him while he was working. The accident happened at about 3:30 p.m. at the International Salt facility at New Ford Mill Road and Bordentown Road in Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania....
Steel plant worker seriously burned in Pennsylvania
On Jan. 7, a steel plant worker was seriously injured at Conshohocken Steel when his clothing caught fire. The accident happened at about 10:40 a.m. as the man stood too close to a portable propane heater with an open flame. Other employees rolled him on the floor and...
Demolition worker falls four stories and dies
In a case that may interest workers in Pennsylvania and other states, the surviving family members of a construction professional in Texas sued several contractors for gross negligence after the man plunged to his death. According to reports, the accident occurred...