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A 35-year-old roofer was part of a nine-member crew constructing the leading edge of a metal roof on a warehouse. The roofer was walking toward his lifeline and about 8 feet away from it when he fell from the unprotected edge.

On the day of the incident, a semitruck with a trailer backed up to a supermarket chain’s loading dock. A freight clerk opened the back of the trailer, checked the freight and determined that the truck was at the wrong dock.

Payson High School students cuddled and cooed when the Love on a Leash dogs and their volunteers came to school on a Monday in May.

Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky workplaces tripled from 2019 to 2021, according to the latest annual report from the Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program.The program, part of the Kentucky

A worker at a manufacturing facility was fatally injured while operating a 200-ton mechanical press.

North Central Solid Waste employee Alfred Trujillo, 47, died on Nov. 23 after being run over by an trash truck, according to Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office Major Lorenzo Aguilar.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – With severe weather season having arrived, the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance program has released a Hazard Alert that focuses on severe weather response and

July 2017: “the palm trees died so we could live” July 2018: “as a young child, I always dreamed of closely associating my personal identity/professional brand with palm tree fires. in Los Angeles, anything is possible” July 2019: “Flaming palm tree: the official symbol of the city of Los Angeles.” July 2020: “not ashamed to admit that the only reason I’ve downloaded the Citizen app is to detect L.A. palm tree fires” Like anything done as a gag for too long, the schtick become...

Every July 4th gives us one of Los Angeles most important symbols: the flaming palm tree Matt Pearce © (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) Palm trees on fire during a 2017 wildfire in Ventura. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) Every July 4th, for most of the past decade, I log on to Twitter and start retweeting every photo and video I can find of palm trees accidentally set on fire by illegal fireworks. As with most social media activity conducted compulsively and without regard ...

    Homicide In this article, we’ll walk you through occupational fatality stats in the construction industry. These accidents have increased in number and changed in nature since 2011. The figures for the construction industry alone are shocking. What’s even more shocking is that many researchers believe these estimates undercount the true number of fatalities. Many people believe that the number of workplace accidents and occupational fatalities is underreported. Most data from the Int...