Posts tagged Worksite Injuries

• Plant Fined After Man Loses Both Arms

  Lee Coleman | June 14, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  $88,500.00 is what a Jefferson County company is being fined after an accident in January left an employee without both arms. The company Six Sigma Incorporated of Jeffersontown has 15 days to appeal to the Kentucky Department of Labor. Employees according to state law can sue employers for a workplace injury if they can prove the company intended for them to be harmed. Six Sigma was found to...

• McKee Tree Trimmer Dies In Fall From Bucket Truck

  Lee Coleman | June 04, 2007 3:42 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A 20 year old McKee resident fell 40 feet to his death Saturday from the bucket of a tree trimming truck. The truck he was working from trimming trees apparently hit a ditch and overturned. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Jackson County deputy coroner. Another person who was in the bucket at the time of the accident was sent to the University of Kentucky Medical Center where he was...

• Mercer Plant Crane Accident Claims Life

  Lee Coleman | April 24, 2007 6:06 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Monday morning a worker was killed in an accident at the Kentucky Utilities E. W. Brown Generating Station Plant in Mercer County. Few details have been released but apparently a worker died when a crane fell on him. Officials would not confirm the identity of the worker or the cause of the accident. This is the same plant a worker died in last month when he fell from a transmission tower at the...

• Mount Sterling Plant Accident Leaves One Dead

  Lee Coleman | April 11, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Monday night a 43 year old Clay City woman was working at Lexington Metals when she was struck in the neck by a piece of steel. She was operating a 1,000 ton machine press that makes bumper parts when a piece broke in the machine. The broken piece shattered when the machine was lowered and a piece hit her on the left side of the neck. The incident happened about 10:10 p.m. She was sent to Mary...

• Corbin CTA Plant Fire Sends Four To Hospital

  Lee Coleman | March 14, 2007 1:04 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Early Wednesday morning a fire broke out at the CTA manufacturing plant in Corbin. The fire broke out about 4 a.m. sending four workers to the hospital. It is unknown at this time the extent of the injuries. The fire was in a high risk area of the plant. The company makes thermal and acoustic insulation for use in cars and trucks. In February 2003 the CTA plant had an explosion that took the...

• Pikeville Miner Killed in Mining Accident

  Lee Coleman | March 13, 2007 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A 48 year old Pikeville man was killed Monday in a mining accident around 4:10 p.m. He was operating an excavator at Double E Augering Mine #3 in the Steele community in eastern Pike County. The machine apparently overturned, killing him. This is the first mining death of 2007, sixteen miners were killed in Kentucky in 2006. Five of those were from a methane gas explosion in Harlan County in...

• Improved Safety For Social Workers Wins House Approval In Kentucky

  Lee Coleman | March 03, 2007 6:03 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  After the tragic death last October of Boni Frederick, a social service aid in Kentucky, who was fatally beaten and stabbed when she took a child for a home visit with it's mother in Henderson, a bill has finally been passed that should improve workers safety. The "Boni Frederick Bill" passed calling for about 4.8 million to hire 33 aids, and 76 social workers and clerical staff over the next 16...

• Worker Injured by Falling Concrete Slab

  Lee Coleman | December 31, 2006 6:01 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The demolition of the Continental Inn in Lexington caused serious injury to a worker yesterday. According to the Lexington Fire Department who responded to the scene, the man was injured when a concrete slab fell from the ceiling, the slab was 3-5 inches thick and 6 by 15 feet across. He had a very serious injury to his foot as he was trapped for around an hour while firefighters worked to free...

• Construction Worker Injured at NKU

  Lee Coleman | November 28, 2006 6:39 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Friday afternoon a construction worker was injured in an accident at the campus of Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights. The employee of Messer Construction was working on some demolition work for the new Student Union Building when some rebar he was cutting released a block that fell on his left arm. He jerked his arm out but tore the skin and exposed the muscle. Paramedics were...

• Coal Truck Collision Claims Life of Kimper Man

  Lee Coleman | November 04, 2006 6:07 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  An early morning accident Tuesday claimed the life of a Kimper man. The accident happened near the Kellogg's "Cookie" factory shortly before 6 a.m. on KY 194 in Kimper. The man apparently crossed the center line while he was traveling east and struck a 1986 Mack Coal truck that was traveling westbound on KY 194. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Pike County Coroner. Both drivers were...