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An unidentified female dockworker at the busy Port of Oakland, CA, who had just finished her night shift and was leaving the dock, was run over and lost both of her legs, reports say. The accident occurred while the shifts were changing at the same time heavy machinery used to hoist the shipping containers and move them around the docks also were also moving around, reports say. The Ports America company, which apparently reconfigured the terminal in January 2010 with…

As they tried to escape a deep, water-filled hole at a Queens, NY waste transfer plant, three workers were killed as they were overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes. The victims, including a father and son who worked for S. Dahan Sewer Specialists, were at the scene working with a vacuum truck to suck water from a dry well that was meant to collect water runoff. Harel Dahan, 23, of Brooklyn, somehow fell into the well and his father, Shlomo Dahan,…

Twenty-five-year-old Dallas Wiens, of Fort Worth, was a construction worker when he was badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago. He recently became the first person in the United States’ to get a full face transplant. Reports say that surgical staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston — led by the plastic surgeon Bohdan Pomahac — performed a 15-hour operation last week that gives Wiens a shot at a normal life after having his face burned…

Houston police are investigating a fatal construction accident that occurred at the South Highway, also known as State Highway 288 on April 22nd. The victim, Manuel A. Seja, 47, of Houston, was working in front of a white International Cement truck, which was parked at a construction site at State Highway 288 and MacGregor. The truck, parked underneath the freeway alongside Brays Bayou, somehow jumped out of gear and it jerked forward and fatally struck him. Seja was pronounced dead…

A study conducted by the Cancer Prevention Institute of California involving 80 Vietnamese women from 20 different salons in California claims that Toulene, a solvent used in nail salons can cause illness. Toulene was said to be associated with neurological, reproductive, and endocrine damage, and workers in the study wore a monitor that measured amounts of the chemical – along with ethyl acetate, and isopropyl acetate. The study found that average toluene levels were about twice the recommended amount to…