In March of last year, the Kent Central Gateway transit center construction site was involved in an accident that took a man's life. The construction accident killed one of the employees working for a subcontractor, a concrete company from Akron, Ohio. According to...
Construction Accidents
State Supreme Court rules on workplace accident suits
Two Ohio workers have lost their suits against their separate employers for injuries they suffered. Though both were allowed to recover damages by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, the employers appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court. Due to this, their case has been...
Truck strikes lift bucket, injures highway worker
A collision between a tractor-trailer and the bucket of a motorized lift on Interstate 75 in Lima, Ohio, has left a man seriously injured. The construction accident happened earlier this month just before 4 a.m.A 40-year-old man from Elida, Ohio, was working on a...
Officer files workers’ comp claim after traffic control accident
After a police officer was injured while conducting traffic control at a construction site, a workers' compensation claim was filed. The construction accident occurred in spring 2008 in the village of Oakwood, Ohio, which is near Cleveland. A construction company...
Two-car accident kills construction worker in Ohio
A 63-year-old man from Campbell, Ohio, is dead. The Avon Police Department confirmed that the construction worker was killed on Sept. 12 when a two-car accident occurred. The construction accident caused the man to sustain life-threatening injuries - he would succumb...
Highway construction makes roads safer for drivers
Highways are not known to be the safest place to drive, especially not during previous years in the area near the intersection of northbound Interstate 75 and the Ohio 4 interchange. Some had dubbed the area "Malfunction Junction" because of the many accidents that...
Construction worker injured while working on traffic light
A man working for a sub-contracting construction company out of Fairfield, Ohio, was recently injured in a construction zone. His serious injuries saw him transported to one hospital then transferred to another. His current condition is unknown, but physicians did...
Safety equipment at center of Ohio Supreme Court ruling
Construction workers have one of the most dangerous jobs. The amount of labor being performed with a countless number of machines and heavy materials can cause injury in the blink of an eye with one small mistake. Construction accidents are not rare by any means, and...
Work suspended at transit site after man dies in accident
In April 2011, officials with the Portage Area Regional Transit Agency broke ground on a $26 million transportation center. Previously, it was expected to open in 2013, but a recent construction accident may be delaying work on the project.According to reports, a...
Fatal fall kills man during construction of Masonic Lodge
Individuals working on a building or any sort of construction in Columbus, Ohio, may want to be more careful, even when they believe nothing could go wrong. A recent construction accident in another state reinforces this warning.According to reports, a 67-year-old man...