Work Accident In The News

Six months after a near-fatal accident, personal-injury lawyer Brian Loncar is training for triathlons again and taking on another big case – his own.

Shortly after 5:30 on Monday evening, as Tarkington Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Evert Doucette was returning home from work, he came across a motor vehicle accident on SH 105 at CR 2234 that had occurred only minutes before.  He used the radio in his truck to contact Cleveland Police Department dispatchers and have Tarkington VFD and City of Cleveland EMS dispatched to the scene.  ..

FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich.-- In the 13 months since a hunting accident left him a paraplegic, Geoff Newmyer has gotten married, taken a 14-point trophy buck, kept his business running and helped out another injured person.

The bloated ethos of Fas and the cash-draining waste of its business practices ensured that the Rody Molloy controversy was an accident waiting to happen. Ian Kehoe and John Burke report.

Air New Zealand has a support team in place in Perpignan, with New Zealand-based staff including Chief Executive Officer Rob Fyfe en-route to France as search and rescue efforts continue.

LAGRANGE TOWNSHIP — A Thanksgiving day car accident at the intersection of SR 303 and Diagonal Road left seven people injured, according to the Elyria Post of the Highway Patrol.

MANILA, Philippines - The father of 10-year-old Liezel Santiago wanted to surprise her daughter this Christmas by coming home after four long years of hard work in United Arab Emirates. But the planned happy family reunion was shattered after the girl met her untimely death at a Malabon school campus Wednesday.

(By Clay Barbour, cbarbour@charlotteobserver.com) Two construction workers were hospitalized Friday after falling 23 feet at a site in Charlotte's South End. The accident occurred about 10:30 a.m. as workers used a forklift to place a wooden trash bin on the third floor of the Spectrum, an apartment community under construction on Hawkins Street. Sherry Southworth, office manager for the ...

French search and rescue authorities have advised they now have locator signals from the two black box flight recorders from the Airbus A320 that was on lease to XL Airways of Germany and lost in the Mediterranean yesterday.

GAINESVILLE - Rob Webster, the stepfather of Florida offensive linemen Mike and Maurkice Pouncey, is in stable but critical condition after losing a leg in a work accident Monday in Lakeland.