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Search warrant issued at Agriprocessors
Associated Press WriterThe Iowa attorney general's office says investigators have executed a search warrant at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville, which was the site of a huge Immigration raid in May. The attorney general's office said in a short statement that no one...Tags: Prosecution, Child Labor, Iowa, Migration, Immigration
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Controller blamed for Teterboro runway mishap
Associated Press WriterFederal investigators have blamed an error by an air traffic controller for a runway mishap at Teterboro Airport last month. A report released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board faulted air traffic control for not directing a Cessna to...Tags: Transportation, Transportation Industry, Emergency Planning, Air and Space Accidents, Air Transportation
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Boy, 12, injured falling from Massapequa mall balcony
laura.albanese@newsday.comA 12-year-old boy was injured yesterday in a fall from the second-floor balcony of a Massapequa shopping mall, Nassau police said. The unidentified boy sustained what police called non- life-threatening injuries to his legs, ankles and feet. He was flown...Tags: Police, Starbucks Corporation
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Worker killed at Tampa high-rise after rod falls, pierces helmet
The Associated PressOfficials say a construction worker at a Tampa high-rise has died after a thin metal rod fell 26 floors, piercing his helmet and head. A hospital spokeswoman has confirmed that 28-year-old Rafael Villasenor Cazares died from injuries suffered while he...Tags: Tampa, Manhattan (New York City), Metal and Mineral
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1 killed, 1 injured in W.Va. chemical plant blast
Associated Press WriterFederal officials are investigating the cause of a plant explosion that rocked an area west of Charleston, hurling a fireball hundreds of feet into the air, killing one worker and injuring a second. Among many other chemicals, the Bayer CropScience...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Health and Safety at School, Injuries, West Virginia, Joe Thornton
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Walkway collapses at downtown San Diego construction site; 16 injured
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSAN DIEGO -- A covered pedestrian walkway collapsed at a construction site downtown this afternoon, injuring 16 people, three critically, authorities said. Several passers-by and transients were under the walkway at about noon when the wooden ceiling...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California)
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Upstate NY factory worker dies in accident
An upstate New York factory worker is dead after he was crushed by a five-ton piece of equipment. Authorities say Eric Lehman died when a wedge-shaped piece of steel casing fell from its support stands at the Alstom Air Preheater Co. in Wellsville at...Tags: New York, Disasters, Industrial Accidents
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Investigators say they may never know what caused accident
Authorities may never know how an aerial lift basket came into contact with a 12,000-volt power line, killing two workers, Elgin investigators said Wednesday at a Kane County coroner's inquest. Ionnis V. "John" Maroulis, 43, and Javier Valdez-Chavez, 31,...Tags: Metal and Mineral
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Schumer: EPA should eye Island Trees school for lead
stacey.altherr@newsday.com; Staff writer ESen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday to perform a thorough inspection of lead contamination at Island Trees High School in Levittown. "Our children's health must be the top priority and I will push the...Tags: Health and Safety at School, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, High Schools, Schools, New York
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Barack Obama emphasizes economic themes as he campaigns
KANSAS CITY - Barack Obama renewed his emphasis on economic themes yesterday, pledging to enforce occupational health and safety regulations as president and declaring that Republican rival John McCain "doesn't get it" when it comes to the anxieties...Tags: Football, Employees, Martin Luther King Jr., Denver Broncos, Ceremonies
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Indianapolis airport death considered accident
Authorities believe the death of a construction worker at Indianapolis International Airport was an accident. The worker was identified Tuesday as 56-year-old Dennis Burch of Hebron, Ky. He was killed Monday afternoon when he was run over by a dump...Tags: Heavy Engineering, FedEx Corporation
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Joliet man electrocuted at Schiller Park construction site
A Joliet masonry worker was electrocuted while working on a town home under construction in Schiller Park, authorities said Monday. Jesus Cisneros, 38, was on a ladder propped against a building in the 3800 block of Wehrman Avenue when he apparently lost...Tags: Police, Schiller Park, Police Investigations, Joliet
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