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U.P. woman dies in workplace accident in Mackinac County<\/h3>\nLOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Authorities in\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0say a contractor who was working on a home remodeling project was killed when a wall collapsed on him<\/a>. NJ.com<\/a> reports 22-year-old Nauro Ramos-Ramirez<\/strong>, of Bridgeton, died Wednesday morning. Police say Ramos-Ramirez was working on a home in Lower Alloways Creek Township when he became trapped under debris after a wall collapsed. The man was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died. Police say Ramos-Ramirez was an employee of the Bridgeton-based company DeWitt Concrete and Masonry Inc.<\/p>\n ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 Police are investigating after a Dollar General employee was shot and killed<\/a> during an attempted robbery Thursday afternoon. Officers responded to the Dollar General at 4038 N. Grand Boulevard around 1:10 p.m. where a man was found shot to death. The man has been identified as 42-year-old Robert Woods<\/strong>.\u00a0The suspect went into the store and fired several shots, according to police. He fled the scene with a black and silver gun with what appeared to be an extended magazine.<\/p>\n Orlando, FL — A man was killed Friday morning in an apparent industrial accident<\/a> in southeast\u00a0Orange County, The man was apparently pinned by a dump trailer, a piece of machinery that attaches to a truck and has a hydraulic lift, said Mike Jachles, a spokesman for Orange County Fire Rescue. The accident happened at 5225 Young Pine Road, a privately owned property near the Orange County landfill. The Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the man\u2019s death. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n CORVALLIS, Ore.\u2014The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating a fatal accident<\/a> at Corvallis-based Oregon Rubber Mills. The accident occurred Aug. 23, according to a list of workplace fatality initial reports on the Oregon OSHA website. An Oregon OSHA spokesman declined further comment, saying the agency does not comment on investigations until they are complete. Carl Sanders, general manager at Oregon Rubber Mills, confirmed the accident took place. He declined to discuss details, except to say that the worker was in his mid-20s.<\/p>\n WALLER COUNTY, Texas\u00a0– A rookie deputy had been patrolling rural Waller County solo for just three nights when her cruiser crashed into a flooded ditch<\/a>, killing her Wednesday night. A swath of stormy weather that swarmed the Houston area sparked the high-water rescue call that Waller County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy Loren Vasquez<\/strong>, 23, was responding to when her Ford Crown Victoria hit a patch of standing water on a dark, curvy tract of FM 362.\u00a0 Her emergency lights were on and sirens blasting when her vehicle hydroplaned, Vasquez\u2019s boss, Sheriff Glenn Smith, said in a phone call Thursday. \u201cShe hit it, spun out and then her car rolled and rolled upside down into the deeper water in the ditch,\u201d Smith said. Vasquez was just three and a half hours into her night shift, Smith said.<\/p>\n HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police are investigating a deadly crash<\/a> that happened on wet roads. Police say a driver lost control and hit a tree on Braeswood near Fondren after 8 p.m. Wednesday night. It was raining very hard at the time, police say, and there may have been some street flooding.\u00a0The victim, who has not been publicly identified, died at the scene.\u00a0Police say the victim worked for a pizza company and may have been out delivering pizzas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Middlebury Township, PA — A natural gas worker at an active well pad in Middlebury Township died early Saturday morning, Oct. 27, after a large piece of equipment fell on him<\/a>, pinning him to the platform 65 feet in the air where he was standing. According to chief county coroner Dr. James Wilson, Mark Jones<\/strong>, 54, of Kansas, was pronounced dead just after 3 a.m. of blunt force trauma to the head after he had been transported to the Soldiers + Sailors Memorial Hospital emergency department by Middlebury and Wellsboro first responders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Chaplin, CT — A 61-year-old worker was killed when a tree fell<\/a> at Natchaug State Forest in Chaplin Thursday. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said the man was a tree contractor. He was working in the area of Pumpkin Hill Road clearing trees that were damaged by gypsy moths when he was struck and killed by a tree. The victim has not been publicly identified.<\/p>\n MILFORD, CT (WFSB) – A deadly crash involving a dump truck<\/a> led to the closure of Interstate 95 north and a few side roads in Milford on Thursday morning. Friday, state police identified the driver as 63-year-old Anthony Edward Drozd<\/strong> of Middletown. State police said at some point beforehand, the dump truck’s body became raised or was unintentionally left in the the “up” position.\u00a0 According to troopers, the truck’s body struck the Quarry Road overpass around 7:45 a.m. and the driver was ejected. The body of the dump truck became detached and struck another vehicle.<\/p>\n Napa, CA — A Napa vineyard worker was killed on Monday after he was pulled into an automatic grape picking machine<\/a>, authorities said. The Napa County Sheriff\u2019s Office identified the victim as Leon Marcelo Lua<\/strong>, 49, a Napa resident.\u00a0Lua had been harvesting grapes at the Deconinck Vineyards of the Beaucanon Winery at the time of the accident. He was reportedly standing next to a tractor-like automatic harvester when a piece of his clothing got caught in the equipment and he was pulled in. He died on the scene at 12:45 p.m. Some harvesting machines are known to operate at a speed of up to 4 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n Atlanta, GA — A worker died Thursday morning after a forklift fell on him<\/a> in Buckhead, officials said. Atlanta police said the forklift operator died after the equipment\u00a0\u201cbecame obstructed, flipped and fell on the victim.\u201d He was removed from under the forklift and pronounced dead. He was identified as Bradley Cowans<\/strong>, 46, of Kennesaw, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n Holtville, CA — An Imperial Irrigation District worker died while trying to recover a body and car<\/a> from the Ash Canal in Holtville last week. Jonathan Burnworth<\/strong> was found unresponsive in the canal on October 26, according to the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal\/OSHA). Holtville is about 40 miles north of Mexicali, Mexico. Burnworth, 32, was in the process of attaching hooks and cables to retrieve a car that crashed into the Ash Canal, the agency said. Other divers found him underwater and brought him to the surface. CPR was performed, which brought back Burnworth\u2019s pulse, said Cal\/OSHA.<\/p>\n Beekmantown, NY — State police say two utility workers were killed<\/a> and two others were hurt when their maintenance helicopter got caught on power lines and crashed in rural northeastern New York. Pieces of the aircraft dangled from power lines late Tuesday afternoon before falling beside cornfields in Beekmantown, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the Canadian border near Lake Champlain. The Federal Aviation Administration says the Aerospatiale AS355F2 helicopter came in contact with power lines and caught fire at 4:16 p.m. The agency will investigate.<\/p>\n East Hartford, CT – A Ludlow man died Monday afternoon in a workplace accident at an East Hartford business, according to reports. Ronald Bonomo<\/strong>, 58, was pronounced dead at the scene<\/a> in a parking lot at a business at\u00a0263 Park Ave., according to\u00a0NBC News Connecticut.\u00a0The Hartford station, citing police sources, said police were called to the scene at around 1:15 p.m. and found Bonomo dead under a truck.Bonomo was the driver of a propane delivery truck with E. Osterman Gas Company, according to NBC Connecticut. He was apparently performing some kind of repair under the vehicle when he became entangled in the truck’s mechanism and killed.<\/p>\n Paterson, NJ — A 56-year-old construction worker died Tuesday morning in Paterson after falling off a roof<\/a> and landing in an empty Dumpster, authorities said.\u00a0 Joseph Perillo<\/strong>, of Woodland Park, was pronounced dead at St. Joseph University Medical Center after falling off a building on the 100 block of Michigan Avenue around 9:15 a.m, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ashland, WI — An employee of energy company Enbridge has died in a helicopter crash<\/a> in northern Wisconsin. The Airbus AS350 helicopter was flying between Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Duluth when it was reported overdue at 8:15 p.m. Monday. It was carrying out routine monitoring and inspection of an Enbridge pipeline at the time. Another helicopter flying out of Superior saw the wreckage at 1:37 a.m. Tuesday, with a ground search team then finding it in a remote area of the Bad River Reservation just before 6 a.m., the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office reports. The pilot, 64-year-old Dean M. Bass<\/strong> of Sarina, Ontario, was found dead.<\/p>\n LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – PCSSD says Jason Johnson<\/strong>, a mechanic, was the employee killed Monday when he was hit by a school bus<\/a>. Johnson, 40, worked for the Pulaski County Special School District from October 2007 through June 2016 and returned to the district in February of this year. In a news release, PCSSD shared “its sincerest condolences to Johnson\u2019s wife and his two sons. “Johnson pulled the bus over because he noticed the door to the lift gate (for wheelchair access onto the bus) had swung open. When Johnson closed this door, it popped the air brake off which caused the bus to begin rolling from neutral gear.” “There were no defects with the bus that crashed,” the release adds. “All district school buses are inspected four times each day – twice in the morning (before and after pick up\/drop off) and in the afternoon (before and after pickup\/drop off).”<\/p>\n San Diego, CA — A man suspected in the killing of a woman<\/a> inside a Midway District adult bookstore has been arrested, the San Diego Police Department said Tuesday.\u00a0 Shaun Ward, 39, was identified as the suspect in the stabbing death of 65-year-old Diane Spagnuolo<\/strong> of El Cajon, who managed the X-Spot adult store on Midway Drive near Kemper Street, SDPD said. A customer found Spagnuolo dead with trauma to her upper body at around 1:45 p.m. on Monday, SDPD said. Police believed she was assaulted and launched a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) \u2014\u00a0Virginia\u00a0authorities say a construction worker fell off a truck that then ran him over and killed him<\/a>. News outlets cite a Virginia State Police release that says 43-year-old Toney Darnell Saunders<\/strong> Jr. was a passenger on a construction truck carrying road cones and barrels in a work zone on Interstate 64 on Sunday night. Police say he lost his footing and fell onto the road from the truck’s cargo area. The truck then backed over him. Saunders died at the scene. The vehicle is owned by Spivey Rental Inc.<\/p>\nDollar General employee shot, killed during attempted robbery Thursday afternoon<\/h3>\n
Man dead after apparent industrial accident in southeast Orange County<\/h3>\n
Oregon OSHA investigates fatal accident at Oregon Rubber Mills<\/h3>\n
Houston-area deputy killed in vehicle crash during heavy rain<\/h3>\n
Pizza employee killed in wreck during Halloween storms<\/h3>\n
Gas worker dies in accident at well pad<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
Contractor Struck and Killed by Tree in Natchaug State Forest in Chaplin<\/h3>\n
Dump truck driver killed in I-95 crash<\/h3>\n
Vineyard worker killed in grape harvesting mishap<\/h3>\n
Worker in Buckhead dies after forklift falls on top of him<\/h3>\n
Diver Dies in SD After Retrieving Wreckage in Imperial Canal<\/h3>\n
2 utility workers killed in NJ-owned helicopter crash in northern NY<\/h3>\n
Ludlow man killed in East Hartford workplace accident<\/h3>\n
Construction worker killed after falling off roof into dumpster<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
Enbridge employee killed as helicopter crashes en route to Duluth<\/h3>\n
New Info on Deadly Monday Accident with PCSSD Bus<\/h3>\n
Man Arrested in Connection With Stabbing Death at Midway Adult Bookstore<\/h3>\n
Truck Runs Over, Kills Construction Worker Who Fell Off<\/h3>\n
Worker dies after falling from roof on TSU campus<\/h3>\n
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