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Month: August 2013

Law enforcement takes no time off from DUI crackdown over holiday

Hopefully, you are currently enjoying the beginning of your Labor Day break. While many U.S. workers are ready to take a breather over the weekend and relax, law enforcement in Harrisburg and throughout Pennsylvania are hard at work. Holiday weekends like this one, particularly in the summer, tend to be...

Mother sues over loss of son in Pennsylvania accident

No parent wants to outlive her child. There are enough uncertainties and dangers in the world that can cause a parent to worry. When someone is negligent and adds to the dangers that a child might face, a parent has the right to get mad. She has the right to...

Pennsylvania nearly worst in U.S. for work injury numbers

A study shows that rate of workplace injury and illness varies between U.S. states. Social Security Disability Insurance provider Allsup said that workers even in the same industry saw a different number of people getting sick or injured on the job depending on what state they worked in. Maine ranked...

Sleeping pills: Blessing for bedtime, but curse on the roadways?

When someone isn’t feeling well or is having trouble sleeping, the goal tends to become singular: to fix that condition. For the most part, it is a blessing that there are various types of medications available that can ease people’s troubles (assuming that people use the drugs responsibly.) Therein lies...

Worker crushed in Pennsylvania mining accident

Pennsylvania and federal authorities are investigating an accident at a Greene County coal mine that sent one worker to the hospital. A 35-year-old contractor was injured on the job when an empty rock dust platform fell off its supply car and landed on him, crushing him below the waist. The...

Pennsylvania man killed in mining accident

A Pennsylvania man who had been working in Pennsylvania as a mechanic for a mining company was identified by the state police and the U.S. Mine and Safety Health Administration. According to the report, the workplace accident occurred when the man was crushed between a tire and a truck’s frame...

Tree-trimmer dies after striking high-voltage power line

A 42-year-old Pennsylvania man was killed while trimming tree branches for a subcontractor of PPL Electric Utilities. His job included scaling a ladder in order to trim branches growing too close to a high-voltage power line. At the time of his fatal workplace accident, he was trimming trees in preparation...