Pennsylvania workers may have heard that the increase in the number of deaths among communication tower workers in 2013 prompted an address from the assistant secretary of labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to the National Association of Tower...
A U.S. District judge for Pennsylvania ruled that a punitive damage claim may be filed in a lawsuit involving a City of Philadelphia worker who died on the job. The worker's widow is suing the city and the manufacturer of the ladder that her husband was using when she...
One worker is missing and another is injured after an explosion ripped through a Pennsylvania gas well on Feb. 11. The explosion triggered an intense fire, and first responders at the scene were beaten back by the flames. The workplace accident occurred at about 7...
On Jan. 31, an explosion at a factory in St. Mary's resulted in the death of one individual and injuries to two others. The workplace injury incident occurred in the morning at a carbon and graphite manufacturing facility on Trout Run Road, and sources state that the...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Police are investigating an incident at a state liquor store in Pennsylvania that left one store employee injured. News sources report that the workplace injury occurred when a man who entered the premises pistol whipped a female clerk after robbing the store....