A tree trimmer died after getting caught in a wood chipper while trimming trees at a town hall near Miami, officials said.

An OSHA investigation into a 24-year-old worker blown out of a storm drain to his death in a Port St. Lucie street uncovered one workplace safety violation. The July violation that investigators say cost Austin Falcon Rodriguez his life could cost Southeast Services of the Treasure Coast $16,131.

an area director for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. That area director is Tampa’s Danelle Jindra, the company is Mosaic Fertilizer, and Jindra’s statement was in the U.S. Department of Labor announcement about the proposed ...

Last year, the Legislature stripped local governments of the power to enact protections, saying a county-by-county approach would be cumbersome for employers. Sponsors say the new bill addresses those concerns.

Rodriguez, a Port St. Lucie resident, was performing maintenance work inside an underground drainage pipe near Southwest Becker Road and Southwest Village Parkway wh

Florida officials said a man was killed on Tuesday in a wood-chipper accident at a town hall. WPEC reported that the contracted tree trimming vendor with Carlton’s Tree Service was on a project at Ocean Ridge Town Hall and Police Department property when the accident occurred.

OCEAN RIDGE, Fla. (WPEC) — A man was killed after he was caught in a wood chipper in Florida. The deadly accident occurred Tuesday 9:30 a.m. while the man, a contracted tree trimming vendor with Carlton Tree Service, was trimming trees by himself on the first day of a project at the town hall and police department property.

A Florida man was tragically killed this week after being pulled headfirst into a wood chipper. The unnamed man was a tree trimmer with Carlton’s Tree Service. He was working Tuesday morning at the Ocean Ridge Town Hall and Police Department property when the tragedy occurred.

A Florida tree-trimmer died in a horrifying accident when he was pulled headfirst into a woodchipper and decapitated Tuesday morning.

Amazon warehouse workers across Illinois were injured at a rate of 8.2 per 100, which was 30% higher than other warehouse workers in the state, according to an analysis of OSHA data.

In Buffalo, New York, city officials recently brought fluoride back online following a class action lawsuit from residents. The suit was filed after an investigative reporter found that the city had not been adding fluoride to its water for nine years, unbeknownst to residents.

International “modern circus” troupe Cirque du Soleil was fined recently by state safety officials after a performer was seriously injured in a summer performance of the show Kooza.