Off-the-Job Safety: Slow Down in Work Zones, Save a Life

Summer is just around the bend, and so are the orange barrels that mark the start of construction season. Roadway workers put their lives on the line every time they set foot in a work zone, which is why transportation agencies across the nation have designated this...

Washington Man Writes a Prescription for Prison

In an attempt to get drugs, a Bremerton, Wash., man faked work injuries and conned hospitals to get painkillers. Robert B. Boyer Jr. of Bremerton, Wash., pleaded guilty to 10 felony counts of fraudulently obtaining controlled substances and has been sentenced to 26...

Family Awarded $39 Million in Highway Construction Death

A jury in Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Common Please Court awarded the family of a highway paving inspector killed during a highway construction project $39 million. Randy Roginksi was marking pavement along the right shoulder for Solar Testing Labs on the night of July 27,...

Effects of West Virginia Chemical Spill Still Linger in the Air

On Jan. 9, a leak in a Freedom Industries chemical-storage facility contaminated the Elk River with 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaving 300,000 West Virginia residents without tap water for several days. Nearly three months after the spill, researchers have found...

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