The number of fire-related deaths in Ohio dropped almost 18 percent last year to a 25-year low of 126 fatalities. State Fire Marshal Larry Flowers on Monday said more than 90 percent of the fire-related deaths occurred in homes with …
Firefighters in Ohio’s largest city are talking with development officials about finding a way to designate vacant homes to make responders aware of potential hazards during emergencies at those properties. There’s no specific plan yet, but officials in Columbus say …
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) awarded four safety intervention grants totaling more than $71,000 in December. BWC designed the Safety Intervention Grant Program to assist Ohio employers in reducing illnesses and injuries and to create a partnership with …
Two Ohio men have been sentenced after they were convicted of fraud for working while collecting workers’ compensation benefits. BWC’s Special Investigations Division (SID) opened an investigation into Kenneth McElroy after learning he was self-employed snow plowing and repairing lawn …
A day of record rainfall has closed water-logged streets throughout Ohio and is pushing rivers out of their banks for the second time in a week. The National Weather Service says the Cincinnati area received 2.76 inches of rain on …
The Ohio county that includes Columbus has agreed to pay a total of $40,000 to two inmates who said jailers went too far in shocking them with stun guns. Tuesday’s settlements come months after Franklin County agreed to dramatically reduce …
Authorities say fires that burned seven recreational vehicles at a southwest Ohio storage facility were set deliberately. The state fire marshal’s office said in a release Tuesday that six of the vehicles damaged or destroyed in Monday’s arson fires were …
A massive and fast-moving fire at an Ohio insulation factory sent flames shooting two stories high and caused the building’s walls to collapse. WJW-TV reports workers got out safely Sunday night before fire crews arrived at Janesville Acoustics in Newcomerstown, …
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) investigations result in 13 worker’s compensation fraud convictions or guilty pleas in October. The cases bring total convictions in calendar year 2011 to 114. Below is a sampling of cases that resulted in a …
An explosion at a closed restaurant near the University of Cincinnati has blown out the building’s windows and front door and sent one person to the hospital. Fire officials could not immediately say what caused Sunday night’s blast at the …