A tragic accident happened in Canton, Illinois, last week. A massive gas line explosion resulted in death, injuries and property damages in the downtown area of the city. One person died and a dozen were injured.The incident happened at approximately 5:45 p.m. after...
On a recent Friday morning, a little after 8:45 a.m., a Shiloh police officer saved a construction worker from a puddle filled with electrified water. Then, another officer employed CPR to bring the injured man back to life. The incident happened right behind the...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be enforcing new reporting requirements for workplace accidents in January 2017. For those companies that miss the deadline for reporting a workplace accident involving an injury leading to hospitalization or a...
When there is combustible material suspended as dust in the air, it can, under certain circumstances, explode. The dust can explode from some materials that don't burn when they are in large pieces.There are many materials that will explode when in dust form. These...
Workers Memorial Day is April 28, and the AFL-CIO, which is made up of 56 national and international unions, will observe the day in the hope of renewing the fight for safer jobs.The Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Mine Safety and Health Act are in place so...
A fine of $226,000 has been proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration against Dedicated TCS LLC. That Illinois tank-cleaning company is based in Lansing, Illinois, and has other facilities in Channahon, Illinois, and New Orleans, Louisiana.The fine...
It's a lot safer than it used to be to go to work, but there are still a very high number of people who are seriously injured while working.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration collected injury data from 26 states to create its latest report. The 26...
The American Society of Addiction Medicine said that between 1999 and 2012, poisonings due to opiates increased 91 percent. Poisonings by heroin during the same time period went up 12 percent. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director,...
A 20-year-old man recently died at the M-class Mine, which is located in Macedonia, Illinois. The Franklin County, Illinois, coroner said that the preliminary autopsy showed the man died from blunt trauma to his trunk, head, neck and extremities.The Franklin County...
Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking fatal workplace accidents, the year with the highest number of fatalities in Illinois was 1996. That year, 262 people lost their lives. 2012 was the lowest year, with 146 fatalities.The preliminary numbers from 2014...
