Category: Workplace Accidents

Crane equipment, including tower cranes, mobile cranes, service truck cranes, telescopic trains, and boom trucks can be found at almost any construction site. Construction accidents involving defective or negligently operated cranes can result in serious physical injuries and even death. Each year, approximately 45 individuals lose their lives in crane accidents. Many more are injured.[…]

America depends on factory workers to keep the economy strong. Working in a manufacturing plant requires strength and speed, and employees often labor under hard conditions. In fact, manufacturers often expose industrial workers to hazards every day. Occasionally, these hazards can lead to injuries that require trips to the doctor, surgeries, physical therapy, time off[…]

For decades, scientists and engineers have been working to develop artificial intelligence (AI) in effort to improve our lives. Yet many people still worry that AI may produce bad outcomes or not live up to its hype. In fact, construction workers recently showed their concerns about AI when they answered a survey about the future[…]

A Pennsylvania-based manufacturing company is facing more than $687,000 in penalties for a variety of workplace safety and health violations resulting in an employee’s amputation injury. Despite being legally bound to provide protective measures that prevent illness, injury, and death in the workplace, irresponsible employers and machine manufacturers regularly put workers in harms way –[…]

Trenching and excavation work is highly dangerous, and just this month a 33-year-old Texas construction worker died after a backhoe slid into the trench where he was working. Most trenching and excavation accidents are preventable, but because the nature of the work is so dangerous there are fatal consequences when general contractors or employers fail[…]