September 15, 2011
The owners of two buildings in Morrilton that collapsed in May, killing a 2-year-old girl and injuring her mother, have been sued by the city in an attempt to get the sited cleaned up. The lawsuit filed in Conway County …
September 14, 2011
A Hinds County judge says he will rule soon on a motion by the University of Mississippi to move a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a former Ole Miss football player to Lafayette County. The Clarion-Ledger reports …
September 7, 2011
Three men were injured when the metal balcony of a third-floor apartment gave way beneath them at a North Texas complex. The incident happened early Saturday at The Grove, a recently opened Denton apartment complex marketed largely to students from …
September 1, 2011
A small Northern California amusement park remains closed while safety officials investigate how a maintenance crane collapsed, injuring two workers. California Division of Occupational Safety and Health spokesman Dean Fryer said Wednesday the investigation will take about four months. The …
August 31, 2011
Indiana’s attorney general wants a judge to dismiss one of the lawsuits filed over the Indiana State Fair’s deadly stage collapse. Attorney General Greg Zoeller asked a Marion County judge Monday to throw out a suit filed by Indianapolis law …
August 22, 2011
Authorities say five people were injured when a ride partially collapsed at a New Jersey amusement park where a girl fell to her death from a Ferris wheel in June. Wildwood police say the center mast snapped on the sea …
August 22, 2011
Experts have determined that the February collapse of an under-construction parking garage in San Antonio happened due to lack of grout. Two workers were injured in the University Hospital parking garage accident. Copies of the report, by structural and engineering …
August 22, 2011
Two of what are expected to be many lawsuits were filed Friday on behalf of people injured when wind toppled a stage at the Indiana State Fair, sending metal scaffolding flying into fans waiting for the country band Sugarland to …
August 18, 2011
Authorities say three people were injured when the roof of a home collapsed in Atlanta. Atlanta fire officials say construction workers were on the roof doing renovations to the two-story, wood-frame house on Flat Shoals Avenue when the collapse occurred …
August 17, 2011
Minnesota State Fair officials say they have standards to keep stages as safe as possible for concertgoers and performers. But they acknowledged Monday that the company that erects its temporary stages faces charges in Canada for a fatal stage collapse …