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A pair of workers at the Owens Corning Plant in Kansas City, Kansas was injured last month as a result of an equipment malfunction while the men unloaded asphalt.   Emergency services from Kansas City, Kansas were called out to address the situation at 8 a.m. to attend to the two employees, who had suffered critical burn injuries from the hot asphalt and were transported to a hospital. Hot asphalt can be as high as 450 degrees, and reports said…

Emergency crews reportedly say a young man was visiting friends fishing on Fountain Hill Lake in Lenoir County, NC when he jumped into the water and tried to swim to a raft, but didn’t make it back to land. Several boats searched for the youth, and dive teams and a number of law enforcement agencies combed both water and land for the teen. Fountain Hill Lake is reported to be 30 feet deep in some spots, making rescue — or recovery — more difficult. Fearing…

Twenty-seven-year-old Erica Green was allegedly drowned in a bathtub Tuesday by a Delaware man, who then set her home on fire to cover her murder. Green, who had been living with her mother in Elkins along with apparent boarders Patrick Devonshire and Robert Hurt, was ultimately identified through tattoos, reports say Elkton Police Department concluded. Green’s autopsy shows asphyxiation by drowning as the cause of death. Reports also say that Jeffery Cordell, 25, of Middletown, has confessed to drowning Green…

Muskegon County, Michigan officials removed the siblings of two children who drowned last month from the custody of their parents, reports say. Two children, Ya’Mesha Mitchell and Torrey Day, slipped into a half filled pool at a vacant home while parents were at the location, but not taking care of the youngsters, reports say. The two children couldn’t swim and died. The children were from two different families, and at least one parent from each family was present when the drownings occurred….

A Glendale, Arizona family and students at a local high school are grieving the loss of 16-year-old Jesus “Jesse” Prado, who drowned at the school pool last month.