Worker Dies in “It’s a Small World” Ride at Euro Disney

A worker whose job it was to clean the It’s a Small World ride at Euro Disney died in a tragic accident at work while cleaning one of the ride’s boats. The ride was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning, and the worker became trapped under one of the boats. The fifty-three year old…

Notre Dame Student Killed by Fall from Hydraulic Lift, OSHA Investigation Underway

Twenty-year-old Declan Sullivan was killed while filming a University of Notre Dame football practice from a hydraulic scissor lift as part of his on-campus job. The lift was extended to a height that just exceeded the football goal posts, and either blew over or collapsed in a strong gust of wind during the team’s practice,…

Semi-truck Kills Pedestrian in Santa Ana, California

An unidentified male pedestrian was hit and killed by a big-rig flat bed truck as he crossed Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana around 6:30 a.m. on October 15th. It was still dark when the accident occurred. The man was crossing Harbor Blvd. about 300 feet south of the intersection with Westminster Avenue when the truck…

Police Van Collides With Two Other Vans in Santa Ana, California Accident

In Santa Ana, California, a Newport Beach city police van crashed into two vans that had already been engaged in an early-morning head-on collision. Both drivers of the vans involved in the initial collision were critically injured and taken to the hospital, one of the drivers sustained life-threatening injuries. Four passengers from one van suffered…

Desert Sands Unified School District Fined by Cal OSHA for Worker’s Death

California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal OSHA) announced that it has fined the Desert Sands Unified School District $7,700 for the electrocution death of a worker in 2009. A California man was killed on the job while working on the school district’s irrigation system in Indio, near Palm Springs. James Jeffredo, a fifty-year-old sprinkler…

One Dead, Four Hospitalized in Tour Bus Crash

A Wolf’s Bus Line tour bus crashed through a guardrail and slid down a 45 foot tree-covered embankment on Interstate 270 near Bethesda, Maryland recently. The bus driver, Joseph A. Clabaugh Jr. was found dead at the scene. All eleven passengers, including five children, were injured in the crash and treated at local hospitals. Four…

PG&E Found Negligent in Electrocution Death of California Worker

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has been ordered to pay a $176,000 fine for the electrocution of employee Maximiliano Martinez in Benicia, California earlier this year. Martinez, a PG&E utility worker, was killed while upgrading an underground transformer with 12,000 volt power lines feeding into the vault that held the transformer. Martinez, age…

Ohio Security Guard Killed at Work by Forklift

Ohio security guard Pedro Alvarez was killed by a forklift at the Charles Jones Produce plant where he worked. Alvarez, the night security guard at the tomato processing plant, walked in front of the forklift and was hit when the driver did not see him. Alvarez was pronounced dead at the scene. The forklift driver…

Tow Truck Driver Hits Mom and Two Kids in Crosswalk in Oxnard, California

Nineteen year old Alma Lopez was crossing Vineyard Avenue at Simon Way in Oxnard California with her two young children in a stroller when she became the victim of a pedestrian hit and run accident. Mehran Khamseh, a tow truck driver from Santa Barbara, turned left onto Vineyard Avenue, knocking Lopez over and dragging the…

Massachusetts Flight Instructor Killed by Walking into Plane Propeller

A flight instructor was trying to help one of his students when he accidentally walked into the propeller of the student’s plane and was killed on the job. Apparently the student was having a problem with the cockpit canopy of his Piper Sport Aircraft. When thirty year old flight instructor, Michael Costales, left his own…