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A freight elevator in a Brooklyn warehouse began to tumble downward in an uncontrolled manner with about 25 people and an undisclosed amount of IT equipment onboard. The emergency braking system did not operate properly, although it did finally kick-in in what was moments before a catastrophic collapse very well may have occurred at the bottom of the elevator shaft. A total of five people were injured in the Brooklyn elevator accident. Two police officers are included among the injured…

A worker at Advantage Landscaping and Construction was severely injured last Thursday in a Hagerstown fuel tank explosion accident. Another employee was also injured in the blast, although not as severely. Information about the Maryland fuel tank explosion accident are sketchy at this time. What is known is that the severely injured employee was welding a 100-gallon fuel tank attached to a truck owned by the landscaping and construction business. The explosion evidently occurred without any notice. The welder immediately…

Questions remain as to the precise cause of a catastrophic fire and explosion that destroyed a California nursing home Friday afternoon, May 7, 2021. Somehow all of the residents of the Castle Crest II Senior Care Facility made it out of the building alive following the explosion accident. Evidently neighborhood teenagers were the first to reach the scene of the explosion accident and helped elderly residents out of the building. Investigators from the Contra Costa County Fire Department immediately began…

A Florida woman was convicted in 2016 to serve five years in prison for DUI manslaughter arising from her killing of person while driving drunk in the Sunshine State. As unbelievable as it might seem, this same person killed yet another person while driving drunk this past week. In the most recent incident, the driver (identified as Jennifer Carvajal, age 24) also seriously injured two other people. Carvajal was bulleting down Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County at around 1:30 a.m….

A considerably amount of media attention has been paid to hotel and resort guests that are injured at a property. Little focus has been directed to hotel employees who are injured as the result of assaults perpetrated by guests at a particular property. Every year, hotel staffers are injured as the result of assaults and other acts perpetrated by guests. A shocking example of this type of assault on a hotel worker took place at the Quality Inn located in…