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Slippery Rock car accident critically injures 3

Jul 27, 2015

A car accident in Slippery Rock Township near the intersection of Route 8 and Branchton Road has injured six total people. Three of the six injured are said to be critical. The accident occurred when a 19 year old man from Cranberry Township crossed through an intersection and hit a pickup truck being operated by a 55 year old Marion Township man. The 19 year old had four passengers in his vehicle. Two victims from...

Ikea dresser causes death of two children

Jul 23, 2015

An Ikea furniture store dresser, known as the MALM chest, has caused the death of two children in the United States this past year. Both children were killed in tip-over incidents. Tip-over incidents occur when a piece of furniture or an appliance is knocked over or falls over and lands on somebody. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, tip-over incidents frequently injure children and in fact, roughly every 14 days a child dies as...

PennDOT employee killed, four others injured in crash

Jul 21, 2015

Tragedy struck the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, workers and workers' families late last week. A PennDOT worker was killed and four other workers injured in a single-vehicle crash in a rural, northern part of the state, about 250 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. According to news reports, investigators have yet to pinpoint the cause of the crash. The 53-year-old driver apparently lost control of the state vehicle as it rounded a curve. It then struck a...

Laws that cannot be broken in truck accidents

Jul 17, 2015

When our legislators aren't reworking old laws that no longer function as intended, they are introducing new legislation to govern Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the United States. However, no one can change the laws of physics. When a large, heavy truck hits a much smaller, much lighter vehicle, the laws of physics are on the side of the truck. We saw that truth illustrated recently in a violent collision involving a concrete truck that can weigh...

Worker injured in Youngstown working on YSU Stadium

Jul 17, 2015

A workplace accident on the campus of Youngstown State University has injured one construction worker. The worker was working at Stambaugh Stadium in Youngstown, Ohio when he fell. The impact of the collision caused the construction worker to sustain head injuries. The construction worker was working on the bleachers of the stadium for a company based out of Indianapolis, Indiana. The injured man was walking between the rows of the concrete bleachers near the top...

Armstrong County gas line explosion causes a workplace injury

Jul 15, 2015

A workplace accident in Worthington, Pennsylvania has caused a workplace injury to one male worker. At an Armstrong County, Pennsylvania compression station, a worker was operating a backhoe. While operating the backhoe, the worker accidentally collided with a high pressure gas line near West Franklin Township. The collision caused an explosion. The Worthington-West Franklin fire fighters quickly turned the gas at the station off and extinguished the fire. The operator of the backhoe was taken...

Two separate Ohio motor vehicle accidents cause a casualty and injuries

Jul 14, 2015

A car accident in Johnson Township, Ohio involving two vehicles has killed one man. Also, a car and motorcycle accident in Jackson Township, Ohio has seriously injured four people. Trumbull County car accident In Johnson Township, a township in Trumbull County, an 86 year old man was traveling south on State Route 193 when he was hit by a 63 year old woman from Cortland, Ohio. The 63 year old woman stopped at a stop...

Central Pennsylvania truck and Amish buggy collision kills two

Jul 13, 2015

A Tylersville, Pennsylvania UPS truck accident has caused the death of an Amish woman and an 8 year old boy. Four other individuals were also seriously injured as a result of this truck accident. In Clinton County, Pennsylvania, a UPS truck was traveling east when it veered into the path of a horse and buggy carrying a group of Amish. The truck collided with the rail alongside the left side of the horse and speared...

Pittsburgh worker falls 15 feet in workplace accident

Jul 12, 2015

A workplace accident in Allegheny County caused one man to be injured and another to be stranded on a roof. When two men were working on the roof of a home on Pulawski Way in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a stairwell collapsed. The stairwell collapsing caused one of the two men to fall down about two stories. He sustained cuts and bruises as a result. The other worker was stranded on the roof. The stairwell was said...

Pennsylvania trucker facing charges in fatal big rig crash

Jul 10, 2015

Prosecutors say a Pennsylvania trucker “should never have been on the road” when he caused a crash that left a married father of four dead. The trucker’s driver’s license had been suspended and then he failed to properly connect a trailer to his big rig. As he was driving around a curve, the trailer detached from his 18-wheeler and slammed head-on into another tractor-trailer, killing the 40-year-old driver. The April 27 Montgomery County tragedy left...