Workplace Injuries

• Ferry Workers Entitled to $8 Million in Back Pay

  Michael Myers | January 20, 2006 3:49 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Pierce County Superior Court Judge Rosanne Buckner recently ruled that the Washington Department of Transportation must give back pay to ferry workers who were forced to work overtime without pay during the last four and a half years. The workers are part of a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of ferry engineers and oilers. The employees had not previously been paid for safety training...

• Whitewater Engineering Corp. Pardoned

  Michael Myers | January 01, 2006 8:16 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Whitewater Engineering Corp., a Bellingham company convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of one of its workers, received a pardon from (former) Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski just before he left office. The employee killed was working on a $15 million hydroelectric project in a valley outside Cordova. He was on a backhoe when snow slid off a 2,000-foot slope and buried him....

• Construction Worker Killed, Another Injured, When Wall Falls

  Michael Myers | December 29, 2005 9:25 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Construction workers in Federal Way were using a forklift to set a wooden wall into its foundation Friday morning when a cable snapped, dropping the wall onto two workers, killing one and injuring the other.A 41-year-old Renton man broke his leg and was taken to St. Francis Hospital, Hwang said. The other workers were able to scramble out of the way. The Department of Labor and Industries...

• Falling Debris Injures Three

  Michael Myers | December 08, 2005 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Three individuals were hurt yesterday when debris from a construction site on Third Avenue and Seneca Street fell on them. One person was hospitalized after being struck by a 10 foot by 15 foot sheet of aluminum. The other two individuals sustained less serious injuries. For more information on the story, click on the following link: Falling Debris Injures Pedestrians.Washington's...

• MT Construction Accident Investigated by OSHA

  Staff Writer | November 07, 2005 8:17 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating a construction site accident in which a cement truck backed over a subcontractor.Terry Richerson of Great Falls, MT was injured when a United Materials concrete truck backed over him while ascending a 10-degree ramp in preparation to pour cement.Richerson's jacket was apparently caught in the truck's drive shaft. He died at the...