Items Tagged with 'accidents'

Rescue crews spent four days navigating toxic gases and floodwater before recovering final victims, shifting focus to safety oversight and tunnel construction practices in northeast India.

Details released are scant on ID and job role of male said to be “in his 30s” who fell from an upper floor of contractor's office renovation site, but firm says fatal incident is not linked to “safety violation.”

Could spoil management have contributed to fatal landslide? Authorities investigate after at least three workers died at a major highway tunnel project in southern India.

Workers performing pothole repairs were struck by an SUV early in the morning on Interstate 294 near Des Plaines, Ill.

DC Water CEO David Gadis cited long-term access easements, standardized permitting timelines and better regulator field coordination "to prevent a recurrence of the failure," but one stakeholder lamented there was no conclusive spill cause or 'clear plan' to avoid future ones.

Maryland has relied on awareness campaigns to protect workers on highway projects.

Paving contractor elected to settle case but disputes the plaintiff's version of events, calling the award a 'nuclear' settlement.

What happened inside the rush to build one of the nation's largest ICE detention facilities is now drawing federal attention.

Three workers were ID'ed by city-based Ironworkers union as members Stepan Shevchuk, the first to be found, and Matthew Kane and Mark Scott Jr., who were discovered early on April 13.

The unfinished garage being built for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is being demolished, following a consultation with structural engineers.