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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…

A man was mortally injured in a traffic accident in the 4400 block of Kashmere about 6:10 p.m on Feb. 18 and later died from his injuries. The victim was transported to Ben Taub General Hospital in critical condition, but doctors pronounced him dead on Tuesday, March 9. His identity is pending verification by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office. Reports say the driver of a red Ford F-150 pickup truck was speeding eastbound on Cavalcade when he turned north…

Fifteen-year-old Ron Edmonds, of Franklin, MN  was remembered at a vigil Sunday, the day after he drowned in a private lake in a Franklin neighborhood. The popular middle school student was reportedly swimming with friends when he drowned. Edmonds mother, Lisa Allen, publicly let the two friends Ron was swimming with that she doesn’t blame them for his death, and they shouldn’t blame themselves. She said there was nothing else they could do to save him. Family members say they…

Mill Spring, NC father and son drowned in a North Carolina lake after they jumped in to try and save a young child in their care from  drowning last month. Reports say 48-year-old William Butch Jackson and 21-year-old William Butch Jackson Jr. were fishing from their small boat on Lake Adger when the elder Jackson’s young daughter fell in the water. Reports say the father and his adult son jumped in to rescue the girl, but the pair never surfaced….

A train accident on May 31 took the life of 22-year-old SBBC student Stanford Heath Allison Jr. According to reports, Allison was struck and killed by an Amtrak passenger train as it made its way into the station. Reportedly, he had walked around the dropped traffic control arms and onto the tracks on a busy intersection. Allison died at the scene. Allison is survived by his parents and his brother and sister There have apparently been several people recently killed…