A man was injured in a Orange County construction accident the afternoon of June 2, 2009, The Orange County Register reports. Orange County firefighters rescued the construction worker, who was trapped up to his waist in a 10-foot trench. The man remained conscious during the hour-long rescue operation and is…
Fatal Construction Accident In Atwater Gregory Moore, a 50-year-old Stockton man, was killed in a northern California construction accident on March 25, 2009. According to a news report in the Modesto Bee, Moore, an employee of Bay City Construction, was with a crew rebuilding Highway 99 near Atwater. Moore was bending…
A 26-year-old worker at Ceradyne’s Irvine facility was critically injured in an industrial accident after being hit with flying shrapnel on November 22, 2008, The Orange County Register reports. The worker, who remains unidentified, suffered traumatic injuries to his head and body and remains in the hospital in “gravely critical…
Four construction workers were injured in a Northridge scaffolding collapse accident on November 21, 2008, according to this CBS news report. The construction accident occurred at the four-story Village apartment complex that was under construction on the 9300 block of Corbin Avenue. Investigators from the California Department of Occupational Safety…
The 37-year-old driver of a forklift suffered severe burn injuries on November 3, 2008 after he accidentally backed into a gas main and causing an explosion, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports. The man, who has not yet been identified, was delivering supplies to a business in the 500 block…
Jacob Gaines, 24, of Bakersfield and Manuel Villagomez, 38, of Elk Grove died in a Paso Robles construction accident on October 2, 2008 after an excavator hit a water line and submerged both men who were working on a pipeline. According to an article in The Bakersfield Californian, the accident…
A 35-year-old worker suffered severe burn injuries in an Oceanside construction accident Sept. 9 after a plastic can filled with gasoline caught on fire. The worker was trying to refill a gas-powered chain saw when the accident happened. The San Diego Union-Tribune was our source for this blog. The injured…
Sixteen people were injured – three critically – when wooden scaffolding covering a Downtown San Diego pedestrian walkway collapsed along a housing construction site Aug. 28, according to this 10News report. Paramedics reportedly transported three people, a 50-year-old man and two women, ages 57 and 60, to an area hospital…