Tag: Occupational accidents
Construction worker dies after fall from building roof
NEW YORK — A construction worker died Thursday after falling from the roof of a two-story building, city officials said, the third fatal incident...
Jimmy Harrell, Deepwater Horizon rig supervisor, dies at 65
MORTON, Miss. — Jimmy Harrell, a supervisor on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, has died...
Walmart sales soared, essential workers got scant protection
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Sandra Kunz had been worried for her safety while working as a cashier at a Walmart in Aurora, Colorado, during...
Police: Dunkin’ customer, 77, fatally punched by employee
TAMPA, Fla. — Police said a Dunkin’ store employee fatally punched a 77-year-old customer in Florida after the employee said the man repeatedly used...
Fire erupts at Kuwait’s largest oil field; two injured
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A fire erupted Monday at Kuwait's largest oil field, injuring two workers, the country's state-run news agency reported.
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Fire erupts at Kuwait’s largest oil field; two injured
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A fire erupted Monday at Kuwait's largest oil field, injuring two workers, the country's state-run news agency reported.
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Union leaders decry Indiana’s high rate of worker deaths
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana labor union leaders are calling for improved workplace safety enforcement with the state’s rate of deaths while working about one-third higher...
35 years on, Chernobyl warns and inspires
KYIV, Ukraine — The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to...
Two horses die in barn fire on Belmont Park backstretch
ELMONT, N.Y. — The New York Racing Association said two horses died as the result of a fire Tuesday night on the backstretch at...
Wolves bite worker at center where lion had killed intern
BURLINGTON, N.C. — A woman has been bitten by two juvenile wolves at the North Carolina wildlife center where an intern was fatally mauled...
