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An 18-year-old Lake Forest, Illinois man was killed and a teenage female companion was injured when they were struck by an Amtrak train in suburban Chicago, say reports. The pair were allegedly trespassing on railroad tracks just north of the Lake Forest, Ill., railroad stop when the train accident happened, reports say. The victims were reportedly hit by Amtrak Hiawatha Train No. 339, which was traveling from Chicago to Milwaukee. Reports say the 18-year-old victim was a Korean foreign exchange…

According to published reports, the United Steelworkers Union of British Columbia has filed suit against forest company Weyerhaeuser, charging the company was criminally negligent in a tragic 2004 accident in which a sawmill worker died doing a job that management knew was unsafe. The worker, Lyle Hewer, 55, died on Nov. 17, 2004, when he entered the bottom of a hopper — called a hog — filled with wood debris. The debris came loose and buried him alive. Less than…

An Oregon accident left an employee dead and the company for which he worked searching for answers and a way to prevent future accidents. Two employees for an unnamed Oregon company were excavating a buried irrigation pipeline for an agricultural operation. One employee was operating a backhoe to unearth concrete vaults in a trench 35 feet long, 14 feet wide, and 14 feet deep. The second employee entered the trench to remove soil remaining around the pipeline and vault. While…

An employee in the Midwest had just filled a bulk storage silo with cattle feed and was repositioning the metal overhead delivery boom to its storage position on the truck when the boom contacted an overhead 7,200-volt power line. The driver, who operated the boom from controls mounted on the truck, suffered severe electrical shock. Electric current traveled through the vehicle to the driver’s hand, finally exiting through the driver’s feet. The driver reported his hand becoming ‘locked’ to the…

Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in a fatal  car accident in the 800 block of Federal Road about 6:50 p.m. on Friday, March 5th. The suspect, Juan Gabriel Ramirez, 35, is charged with one count of intoxicated manslaughter and one count of intoxicated assault in the 176th State District Court. Reports say that Ramirez, driving a silver Isuzu Rodeo, was traveling northbound on Federal Road when he struck two female pedestrians attempting to cross the street. Ramirez…