When you go to work, the last thing you want to happen is an accident that leaves you with injuries. Unfortunately, there are many industries that are riskier to work in than others. The construction industry is one of them. Late last month, a horrible incident...
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CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT LEAVES MAN CRUSHED BY BEAM
Today we bring you a story out of Santa Barbara because the incident shows us how dangerous the construction industry can be. A man, whose name has not yet been released, was killed in the early morning hours last Monday when a 7,200-pound steel I-beam he was moving...
CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FINED FOR FATAL ACCIDENT
We found out last week that Cal/OSHA, California's workplace safety regulator, fined a construction company for violations concerning a fatal trench accident that happened in April. Bay Construction Co. was fined $141,075 for the accident that killed a worker in...
EXCAVATOR VEHICLE OVERTURNS IN NEARBY CHULA VISTA
We are bringing you a story from a few months ago because it highlights a particularly dangerous part of construction work - vehicle accidents. When most of us think of vehicle accidents, we think of our personal vehicles and crashes on the roadways. In...
RUN OVER CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS ARE PREVENTABLE, SO WHY DO THEY STILL HAPPEN?
Thanks to San Diego's climate and the fact that California is among several states with the highest construction worker wages, there are a lot of construction workers in San Diego. As a result, there are also a lot of construction workers injured in San Diego and...
REBAR TOWER FALLS AT CONSTRUCTION SITE, INJURES THREE
We want to bring you a story from a bit out of our coverage area to highlight some of the dangers that construction workers face every day. This accident happened last week in Fremont, California when a rebar tower fell at a construction site they were working at....