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- 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...Read More - 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...Read More - 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...Read More - 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...Read More - 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...Read More - 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...Read More - 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...Read More - 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...Read More - Mercer County truck accident injures three people off of I-80
Jul 9, 2015
A truck accident involving one tractor trailer and two passenger vehicles in Shenango Township, Pennsylvania has injured three people. The truck collision occurred on the eastbound exit ramp of interstate 80 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Two men in their sixties from Sheffield, Ohio and a 32 year old man from Avon, Ohio were injured. They were taken to local hospitals. This truck accident happened when one of the passenger vehicles was attempting to exit interstate...Read More - Extraordinary attempt to deny workers’ comp benefits rejected
Jul 7, 2015
A Pennsylvania construction worker was minding his own business, doing his job on a worksite at a sewage plant about 40 miles south of New Castle. Then he found out that a plant employee had fallen into the concrete pit on the jobsite. He rushed to try to rescue the fallen man. Unfortunately, he and two others who mounted the rescue effort were too late: the plant worker was dead. As the construction worker climbed...Read More