Construction Accident

Nothing derails a road trip or your daily commute faster than a construction zone. Though it’s great to see roadways being worked on and improvements being made, construction zones and the roadwork being done in them often seem to last forever, and when they’re en route to where you’re going,…

We take it for granted that modern workers are safer than those who came before, but it’s important to remember that injury, illness, and even death from incidents that happen on the job have not been entirely eliminated. In fact, in 2016 (the latest year with full data), fatal workplace…

A thirty-nine-year-old Canton man died on September 14 while working on a demolition project in Troy. The man, part of a crew removing an in-ground pool, was using a gas-powered saw to cut through a metal portion of the pool. When the saw became stuck, the worker pulled on it. The…