| August 31, 2010 |
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Gas Worker Dies Of Head Trauma
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| Posted By Personal Injury Attorney |
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| A worker at Cabot Gas died this week after being hit in the head with a pipe at a natural gas rig in Dimock, Wyoming last month. The worker, 41-year-old Gregory Walker, of Colorado, died from his injuries at the Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical ... |
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| August 29, 2010 |
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Gas Explosion Death Yields $82.5-Million to Texas Worker's Family
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| Posted By Houston Personal Injury Attorney |
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| A Texas jury awarded $82.5 million in damages to the family of a man who died in a 2007 explosion at Houston-based Hanover Compressions L.P., a natural gas processing plant in Hood County. The company, which has since been renamed Exterran Energy ... |
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| August 28, 2010 |
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills Worker
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| Posted By Accident Attorney |
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| A 38-year-old dock worker died from carbon monoxide poisoning recently, as he was pressure-washing a freshwater tank on a fishing vessel, while five other dockworkers sustained exposures to carbon monoxide in an attempt to rescue the injured worker, ... |
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| August 27, 2010 |
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Tractor Kills Dockworker
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| Posted By Injury Attorney |
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| Pablo Garcia, a 53-year-old longshoreman from Lakewood, CA, was struck and killed as he worked at Terminal Island in Long Beach, California last month. This marks the third such fatality in local ports since April of 2008. The Saturday evening death ... |
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| August 26, 2010 |
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Family of Norfolk Man Settle Suit for Half-Million Dollars
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| Posted By Personal Injury lawyer |
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| The employers of a dockworker's family, Virginia International Terminals Inc., has agreed to pay that family $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the surviving family members of a port worker killed at Portsmouth Marine Terminal in 2007, reports ... |
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| August 25, 2010 |
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Toddler Nearly Drowns in Inflatable Pool
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| Posted By Injury Lawyer |
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| A two-year-old child almost drowned in a backyard pool earlier this month as the mother's boyfriend, who was watching the infant at the time, walked away to talk on his cell phone, reports say. The near drowning accident occurred in Clay Township, ... |
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| August 24, 2010 |
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Drunk Teenager Nearly Drowns in Apartment Pool
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| Posted By Personal Injury Attorney |
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| A 16-year-old Huntington Beach girl is recovering in the hospital after nearly drowning while drinking alcohol in an apartment complex pool, say reports. The pool accident occurred earlier this month at the Ocean Air Apartment Homes, a few blocks ... |
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| August 23, 2010 |
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Airline Mechanic Dies on Job
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| Posted By Personal Injury Attorney |
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| A Delta Airlines mechanic was killed when the landing gear doors in the wheel well area of an Airbus A319 that was to depart to St. Louis at 7 AM somehow malfunctioned or activated and killed him. The mechanic, 47 year old Jesse Paul Stygar of ... |
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| August 22, 2010 |
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BP Disaster Brings Back Memories of other Oil Rig Explosions
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| Posted By Injury Lawyer |
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| As oil continues to gush from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, another crisis this month nearly 50 years ago is being remembered. The C.P. Baker, a catamaran-type drilling barge had started to drill when the water around the vessel began to bubble, ... |
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| August 21, 2010 |
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Commercial Fisherman Killed By Equipment
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| Posted By Injury Attorney |
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| A 24-year-old commercial fishing vessel skipper died when he got caught in a net and pulled into a deck winch. The recent incident occurred while a load of salmon was being pulled in while the skipper stood near the pulley. The captain, whose name ... |
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| August 20, 2010 |
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Fisherman Dies in Channel Collision
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| Posted By Injury Attorney |
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| One fisherman died after another fishing boat rear-ended his boat last month, throwing him into the Cal-Sag Channel in Illinois, reports say. The Orland Park man, whose name was not released, drowned when the second boat swerved to avoid a log and ... |
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| August 19, 2010 |
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Alaska Fisherman's Mayday Likely Saves Crew, Costs Him His Life
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| Posted By Personal Injury Lawyer |
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| A commercial fishing skipper's decision to make a mayday call moments before the boat sank probably saved the lives of his crew, but also may have cost him his own life. Reports say that Captain Robert Royer suffered a fatal head injury while leaving ... |
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| August 18, 2010 |
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Commercial Fisherman Dies in His Nets
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| Posted By Personal Injury Attorney |
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| An Australian commercial fisherman, considered a legend in his hometown of Buderim, Queensland, was accidentally killed after his jacket got caught in a spool of nets he had just cast earlier this month. The fisherman, Noel Stevenson, 45, was ... |
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| August 17, 2010 |
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Worker Run Over By Truck
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| Posted By Personal Injury Lawyer |
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| As he walked behind a truck, a an oil and gas "swamper" tripped as the truck was backing up with a load and was killed when the vehicle drove over him, reports say. The workplace accident occurred in June when a drilling rig was being moved to ... |
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| August 16, 2010 |
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Sailor Killed While Trying to Leave Boat
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| Posted By Personal Injury Attorney |
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| A crew member of a Qatargas time-chartered vessel died from injuries he sustained while boarding a service launch from the ship on which he had been working. The worker, who had just completed his tour of duty and was leaving the ship to return home, ... |
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