Florida County Club Worker Killed After Being Hit in Head by Golf Ball

Maurice Hayden, 42, died after being hit in the head by a golf ball while he was working at the Mayfair Country Club in Sanford, Florida. According to a news report, Hayden was pulling weeds on the second hole of the Mayfair Country Club course when he was hit by an errant tee shot, which…

Lawsuit Says California Workplace Discrimination Led to Hospital Deaths

Two doctors and a medical assistant at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center say at least one patient has died because of sub-standard care brought on by the negative work environment at the center’s cardiology department. The employees claim they were ignored, embarrassed and in one case- terminated for complaining to administrators about the situation that…

Los Altos Hills, California Cyclist Killed by Big Rig

47-year-old Lauren Perdriau Ward was killed by a big rig truck while riding her bicycle in Silicon Valley. The accident occurred on Alpine Road near the I-280 overpass. Investigators say it looks like the accident occurred on the left hand side of the truck. The bicycle and the truck were both traveling westbound, and police…

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,…

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…