The owner of an Ann Arbor self-storage business has been cleared of liability in the death of a customer who accidentally locked himself in a car trunk. The Michigan appeals court last week overturned a decision by a Washtenaw County …
An Iowa construction company has been fined $14,000 for safety violations in a fatal January accident on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. The Gazette of Cedar Rapids is reporting that the Occupational Safety and Health Bureau of …
Officials in Pennsylvania say a powerboat was having mechanical difficulties before exploding near a yacht club on Lake Erie, killing one person and injuring nine others. Erie Chief Fire Inspector Guy Santone tells the Erie Times-News that the boat’s operators …
Two employees have died from injuries received in a fire at a Gallatin, Tenn. factory. That brings the total number of workers killed in accidents at the Hoeganaes Corp. plant this year to four. Vanderbilt University Medical Center spokeswoman Jennifer …
A landscaping company has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor safety violation stemming from a wood chipper accident that killed a 14-year-old worker. The Daily Press reports that Old Tree Dominion and Lawn Care owner Robert Lee Strickland Jr. entered the …
Milwaukee police say a shooter opened fire in an east-side restaurant, killing one person and critically injuring another. Authorities were searching for three suspects in the shooting inside La Piazza just before 1 a.m. Tuesday. The restaurant is near a …
Two train crew members were killed and two others injured in a freight train crash in Union County that crumpled train cars and forced the evacuations of nearby homes early Tuesday, officials and witnesses said. CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan said …
Authorities say a 24-year-old man who was sandblasting floor grates outside a Helena business died after the lid of the machine’s tank became dislodged and struck him in the head. Lewis and Clark County Coroner Mickey Nelson tells the Independent …
On a clear June afternoon, a tractor-trailer truck crested a small rise on a stretch of interstate highway in Oklahoma. Plainly visible in the distance were more than a dozen cars and trucks that had stopped while a fender-bender was …
Indianapolis officials say a woman was killed in a house fire that was among a string of 10 overnight fires, most of which are believed to be arson. The city Fire Department says five of the blazes were reported before …