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The Fourth of July holiday should be a time of celebration for family and friends. Such was not the case for Kyle Allen, a 5-year-old boy in Columbus, Ohio. Kyle and his 3-year-old brother were left home alone by their mother for an extended period of time during the afternoon. At some point while they were unattended, the two boys walked over to the neighborhood pool. The pool was approximately a block away from the boys’ home. Evidently the pool…

On Monday, October 5, in the early afternoon, a partial building collapse occurred at a Harvey Builders construction site for a new Marathon Oil structure in Houston. Three workers were killed in the collapse, one crew member was hospitalized and is reported to be in stable condition. Investigation into the cause of the Harvey Builders collapse has been slow moving because the partly constructed Marathon Oil building was deemed significantly unstable following the collapse of a stairwell. The staircase in…

The day following the tragic partial collapse of a Houston high-rise office building under construction, the remains of three workers killed in the Harvey Builders construction site accident remain in the rubble. The 15-story building remains too unstable for emergency personnel to enter, leaving the bodies buried in the rubble from a stairwell collapse. Harvey Builders, together with technical experts from the Houston Fire Department are working to find a way to stabilize the structure. 240 workers were at the…