The Associated Press reports that both the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety, and Training, and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration are investigating whether the recent fatal accident at a West Virginia Patriot Coal Mine is mining-related. On Jan. 28, 43-year-old Darrell Massey, a contract worker, was killed in a vehicle rollover….
Virginia’s Peanut Corporation of America is now facing wrongful death charges after a nursing home resident died from a salmonella infection following the consumption of a PCA peanut butter product.
Two years after the mining tragedy, two more families settled their wrongful death lawsuits with the mining company involved in the Sago Mine disaster.
A man hiking in the woods was shot by a young hunter over the weekend, raising awareness about safety precautions for everyone during hunting season. The hiker was not wearing hunter’s orange at the time of the accident, and the shooter did not visually confirm that he was aiming at a deer.
When an autistic boy choked to death on his own vomit on his first day at the Grafton Group Home, his family filed a wrongful death suit against the hospital. Now, the case will be heard for the second time in two years.