The city of Costa Mesa has hired a private investigator to look into the alleged suicide of city employee Huy Pham, who plunged to his death from the roof of City Hall on March 17, according to a news report. Several City Council members reportedly expressed concern that the City does not know everything it…
A 27-year-old Pomona man working as a window washer was killed in a Huntington Beach work accident when an extension rod he was using to clean windows came in contact with power lines, according to a news report. A Huntington Beach Fire Department spokesman said that Gandy Ochoa was using an aluminum extension rod to…
An Orange County man who was sitting in a police car after being pulled over on suspicion of DUI was injured after another alleged drunk driver crashed into the police car and at least three other vehicles during an Anaheim car accident, according to a news report. A Garden Grove police spokesman said officers had…
A construction worker was seriously injured when he fell from the scaffolding of a home under construction in a Corona del Mar neighborhood. According to the Newport Beach Fire Department, rescue crews were called to a residence under construction at Evening Canyon and Shorecliff after a man was reported to have fallen from construction scaffolding. …
Four people were hospitalized after complaining of headaches and difficulty breathing inside a Costa Mesa 99 Cents Only store, according to a news report. The Costa Mesa Fire Department was called in to investigate, and evacuated the building after finding high levels of carbon monoxide inside the store. Investigators said they believe the fumes were…
An explosion at a West Virginia chemical plant has killed two brothers who were employed there and critically injured another employee, according to news reports, which said that this was the third fatal explosion at the plant in 15 years. Jeffrey Scott Fish, 39, and James E. Fish, 38, were killed at the AL Solutions…
A Salvation Army thrift store in Grand Junction, Colorado was crowded with holiday shoppers when a part of its roof suddenly collapsed, momentarily trapping 22 people inside. According to a news report, a portion of the thrift store’s ceiling collapsed onto the first floor. Store employees feared that one person had been trapped in the…
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…
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…
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…
