Workplace Injuries

• Brain Damage Caused By Manganese Contained In Welding Fumes: Will Manganese Prove to be the Next Asbestos?

  Steve Lombardi | March 13, 2009 1:28 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2006 there were approximately 462,000 welding, soldiering, and brazing workers. The occupation was expected to grow only about five...

• Construction Site Safety: When safety is ignored bridge erection or destruction can kill

  Steve Lombardi | December 30, 2008 10:07 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Here is a bridge being erected that kills a worker when a 121-ton girder falls. The report I found doesn’t indicate whether the girder fell onto a worker or whether if he was riding it he...

• Pedestrian bridge in Atlanta collapses during construction

  Steve Lombardi | December 21, 2008 9:38 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  The Atlanta Botanical Garden in Piedmont Park is constructing a pedestrian bridge that reaches four stories in height off of the ground. It’s supposed to give people the feeling of what...

• The Danger of Combustible Dust

  Justin Rogers | August 01, 2008 9:00 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  On May 1, 2008, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 5522 . This bill requires the Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao , to issue occupational safety and health standards...

• Workers' Rights - When did hard work become a crime?

  Steve Lombardi | June 07, 2008 5:46 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Leave the immigrant labor force alone and take my kids instead. On the side of the ICE busses and vans, just paint on the side, ICE Cream Wagon. Get a bell to announce your arrival. And don't forget, take my kids!

• Man killed in plant explosion, sparks or static electricity?

  Steve Lombardi | November 18, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In Columbia County, Wisconsin a 47 year old man died Sunday October 18th, in an explosion in the American Packaging Corporation plant, according to the Wisconsin State Journal news source. Jeffrey...

• Texas A&M construction site at Zarzamora St. and Loop 410 Ditch Collapse

  Steve Lombardi | November 16, 2009 11:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A 45-year-old construction worker was in a construction site ditch while co-workers were removing a tree. As they pulled the tree out the ditch collapsed trapping the man in the ditch and burying...

• Can homicide be a workers compensation case in Iowa?

  Steve Lombardi | November 05, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On Thursday October 8th John Versypt of Cordova Ill. was found in a common area hallway with a gun lying next to him. Mr. Versypt owns rental units in the complex and was reportedly in Iowa City,...

• Bulldozer slips off jacks and kills operator

  Steve Lombardi | November 02, 2009 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  What caused a bulldozer to slip off the jacks and kill 60 year old Patrick O’Shaughnessy? That will be the question his family is asking after an accident at a construction equipment company...

• Farm Safety and Corn-Full Grain Bins

  Steve Lombardi | October 23, 2009 1:09 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On September 23rd, 2009 Paul Nurre of Strawberry Point was found in a grain bin full of corn in Aurora. Mr. Nurre was reported missing Wednesday afternoon after which firefighters and employees...