Posts tagged construction

• Construction worker killed, four injured in crane collapse

  Amber Scott | April 05, 2012 8:48 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The arm of a 170-foot crane broke in half Tuesday, killing one and injuring four others at a subway construction site in Manhattan, N.Y. The New Times identified the dead construction worker...

• Subcontractor crushed to death at Kent construction site

  Amber Scott | March 29, 2012 12:28 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Barberton subcontractor Russell Hirschfelt, 49, died Tuesday after being crushed between a backhoe and a stack of concrete slabs. The Lockhart Concrete construction worker was walking between the...

• Construction Woker In Critical Condition After Fall

  Chrissie Cole | August 28, 2009 11:07 AM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A construction worker is in critical condition after falling from a scaffold onto Interstate 75 Wednesday. Edmond Gourdon, 42, of Covington, La., was taken by medical helicopter to University...

• Worker Injured In Construction Zone Hit-And-Run

  Chrissie Cole | July 11, 2009 11:26 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Ohio driver is in custody after allegedly speeding through an active construction zone where he struck a worker and continued driving. The accident happened at 4:30 a.m. Friday near the...

• Toledo, Ohio construction worker struck by car, suffers personal injury

  Chuck Boyk | November 29, 2007 1:57 AM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A Toledo construction worker suffered personal injury last Friday after being struck by a passing car, according to the Toledo Blade. The car-pedestrian accident occurred shortly before 11:00am on West Bancroft St., sending 60-year-old Thomas Farster to Toledo Hospital with undisclosed personal injuries.Our Toledo, Ohio personal injury attorneys see the devastating effects caused by car...

• Toledo, Ohio workers compensation attorney Chuck Boyk interviewed on Channel 13 ABC

  Anneke Kurt | November 27, 2007 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Toledo, Ohio workers compensation attorney Chuck Boyk was interviewed earlier this month on Channel 13 ABC in a special report on workers compensation. Workers compensation is paid when a person injured at work files a claim to cover costs such as time lost on the job or medical bills. The special investigation discussed workers compensation fraud, which occurs when an employee injured on the...

• Ohio Worker Killed in Crane Accident

  Chrissie Cole | August 17, 2007 1:14 AM | 0 CommentsCincinnati, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  An Ohio construction accident involving a crane claimed the life of one work and seriously injured another worker at the work site of the Old Riverside Downs Racetrack along the Ohio River.Officials believe one of the victims is reported to be approximately 19-years- old, and the other middle aged. Officials were unable to release the names of the injured workers or any other details regarding...

• Construction accidents kill two men in Toledo

  Dale Emch | July 10, 2007 2:52 PM | 0 CommentsToledo, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Flags in Toledo were lowered to half-staff today after the deaths of two construction workers at separate job sites.Both Tommy Zunk and Walter Minarik were killed in tragic construction accidents that involved cranes.These fatalities show just how dangerous construction work can be. With the construction boom that Toledo is experiencing between the just completed I-280 bridge project and the...

• Construction Worker Killed in Crane Accident

  Chrissie Cole | July 02, 2007 2:07 AM | 0 CommentsCincinnati, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A worker was crushed to death, Monday, in a construction accident when an 8-ton weight from a construction crane fell on him, police said.The worker, 51, of Fremont, employed by Mosser Construction Inc. for 18-years was helping other workers to dismantle the crane when one of the counterweights came loose and struck him. The worker was declared dead at the scene.He was supposed to drive one of...

• Worker Injured on Construction Site

  Christina Cole | May 08, 2007 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsCincinnati, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A Columbus man is in serious condition at Ohio State University Medical Center after a suffering a shot to the neck by a nail gun yesterday, in a construction accident at Port Clinton Middle School where he was doing construction work.The man, 25, was shot with the air nail gun while working on decking at the middle school. The 3-inch nail entered his neck on the right side and was stuck, police...