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Company fined for accident at Quaker Oats
A construction company has been fined $7,000 for an accident that injured four workers at a Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids this summer. The Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Bureau cited Blahnik Construction for two violations, fining the company...Tags: Iowa, Employees, Punishment, Fines
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Islip supervisor Nolan draws union ire with policy moves
jennifer.maloney@newsday.comIslip Supervisor Phil Nolan, who won re-election in November on a reform platform, has since implemented a slew of new policies. He's trimmed the town fleet, cut back town cell phone use, expanded employee financial disclosure requirements and...Tags: Suffolk County (New York), Elections, Local Elections, Long Island, Town of Islip
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Trial nears end in multimillion-dollar asbestos suit
247-4749When he began working as a boilermaker 40 years ago, shipyard worker John O. Koonce didn't know the dangers the tiny asbestos fibers could wrought. Shipyard employees were trained to look out for dangerous odors, for example, but the tiny particles &#...Tags: Environmental Politics, Justice System, Trials, Illinois, Shipbuilding
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Clients have roots at Compton hair salon
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterShortly before 5 a.m. on a recent Saturday, Josie Reynaga welcomes three generations of the Castaneda family into her Pueblos Unidos hair salon in Compton, where half a dozen stylists await the groggy clients with curling irons and cans of Aqua Net at the...Tags: Crimes, Police, Hair Salons, Jose Hernandez, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Construction worker dies in 40-story fall in Manhattan
A construction worker fell about 40 stories to his death yesterday at a skyscraper being built by the developer of the World Trade Center, authorities said. The victim, identified as Anthony Esposito, a rigger on a crew dismantling a crane, fell...Tags: Death and Dying, Luis Guzman, Manhattan (New York City)
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Construction worker falls 40 stories to death
Associated PressA construction worker fell about 40 stories to his death Thursday at a midtown Manhattan skyscraper being built by the developer of the World Trade Center, authorities said Thursday. The man, who was a rigger on a crew dismantling a crane, fell either...Tags: Death and Dying, Luis Guzman, Manhattan (New York City)
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Officials weigh mine charges
Federal mining officials have asked prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges are warranted in the death of nine people in last year's collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah. The Mine Safety and Health Administration has been investigating two...Tags: Utah
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Worker, 65, killed in fall at Sparrows Point plant
A worker at the Severstal steel plant at Sparrows Point was killed yesterday after he fell from scaffolding while removing coal debris from a conveyor belt, authorities said. The man was identified as Robert George Fuchs, 65, of the 7900 block of Bank St....Tags: Industrial Accidents, Maryland, Disasters, Baltimore County
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Accident near coal storage kills worker
A worker was killed over the weekend after he was pinned beneath a train car near the CSX coal storage in Newport News. Brian Lee Keith, 21, was airlifted to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital shortly after noon Saturday. A hospital spokesman said Keith...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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NORTH HEMPSTEAD: Work on Town Hall to resume soon
Scaffolding outside North Hempstead Town Hall stood empty yesterday, almost three weeks after a town spokesman said it would take about a week for renovations to resume at the site, where work was stopped last month so the town could remedy potential... -
Industrial accident at Keystone
A huge metal pipe fell on a worker's leg this afternoon at Keystone Cement Co. in East Allen township. The worker is an employee of CCC Inc., a Texas company working as a general contractor on a construction project at the plant. The worker was...Tags: Industrial Accidents, Texas, Disasters
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Pipe at Keystone Cement falls, injuring worker
A huge metal pipe fell on a worker's leg Wednesday afternoon at Keystone Cement Co. in East Allen. The worker is an employee of CCC Inc., a Texas company working as a general contractor on a construction project at the plant. The worker was airlifted...Tags: Medical Staff, Employees, Labor Legislation, Texas, Metal and Mineral
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