The operator of an excavator with Mirra Construction injured after the equipment rolled onto its side as it was being loaded onto the trailer in Royalston

Worker hurt when excavator topples in Royalston, Mass.



Tuesday Posted Aug 30, 2016 at 4:04 PM Updated Aug 30, 2016 at 4:39 PM

 By Elaine Thompson
Telegram & Gazette Staff


ROYALSTON, MA – The operator of an excavator was taken to the hospital Tuesday after the equipment fell from a trailer on Turnpike Road.

State Trooper Paul Sullivan said the vehicle rolled onto its side as it was being loaded onto the trailer. The 61-year-old operator, whose name was not publicly released, was taken by ambulance to Heywood Hospital in Gardner with injuries that were not life-threatening, the trooper said.


He said representatives of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration declined to investigate because the accident “probably does not meet the standards for a basic investigation.”He said the company involved in the accident is Mirra Construction

Logging worker with Johnson Logging died of blunt force trauma to the head as were harvesting marked trees on private property southeast of Harrisonville, PA

Shippensburg man killed in logging accident: update
Chambersburg Public Opinion 2:22 p.m. EDT August 31, 2016


UPDATE: OSHA has sent an investigator to the scene of a logging accident that took the life of Richard L. Johnson II on Monday.

Timothy Braun, assistant area director of OSHA's office in Harrisburg, said the investigator is still trying to determine if Johnson's accident is covered under OSHA regulations.

The big question will be whether Johnson was considered an employee or an owner of Johnson Logging, Braun said.

"(OSHA) will determine how the accident occurred and if the company was in compliance (of OSHA rules)," he said.

The fact that OSHA is investigating does not mean OSHA safety rules were broken, he said,

Fulton County Coroner Berley Souders ruled the death accidental.

LICKING CREEK TOWNSHIP - A Shippensburg man was killed Monday by a falling tree while he was working his logging job, according to Fulton County Coroner Berley Souders.

Richard L. Johnson II, 44, was pronounced dead at about 12:15 p.m., Souders said. Johnson died of blunt force trauma to the head. The coroner's office ruled the death an accident.

Johnson and his father owned and operated Johnson Logging, a third-party contractor. They were harvesting marked trees on private property just off Patterson Run Road about three or four miles southeast of Harrisonville when the accident happened.

Souders said Johnson's father, who was driving the truck they were using to haul the harvested logs, discovered his son's body at about 11:30 a.m. Monday.

Johnson had cut a tree down and was trimming it when an adjacent tree fell on him, Souders said.

Johnson was a 1989 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School and attended Penn State University, studying exercise and sport science.

He was the son of Richard L. and Linda Deck Johnson. The father-son team worked together for 25 years. According to his obituary, the son loved his job because it gave him the freedom to be outdoors and in the mountains.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home in Shippensburg.

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Richard L. "Dickie" Johnson II
1971 - 2016 Obituary Condolences
 





Richard L. "Dickie" Johnson II
September 21, 1971 - August 29, 2016
Shippensburg
Richard L. "Dickie" Johnson II, 44, departed this life on the morning of Monday, August 29, 2016.
He was born on September 21, 1971, in Chambersburg, the son of Richard L. and Linda Deck Johnson. Dickie was a 1989 graduate of Chambersburg High School and attended Penn State University, studying Exercise and Sport Science.
Dickie worked alongside his father, owning and operating Johnson Logging for the past twenty-five years. He loved his job because it allowed him to always be outdoors and in the mountains. Dickie just recently had a tattoo sleeve completed, showing a mountain setting under a full moon and lots of trees. It was very apparent how near and dear this was to his life and also how it shaped him as a person.
He wasn't a big fan of mornings, but you could sometimes find him sitting on the couch watching television with his St. Bernard, Mose, and he always had that candy dish nearby, because he loved to eat. Dickie had a nice Dodge Challenger and he liked to golf, especially at Piney Apple with Karen and his friends, with whom he always enjoyed their company and the company of their children. He will be missed by many.
In addition to his parents, Dickie is survived by his long-time companion, Karen Wickham; his sister, Lori (Brian) Donovan; niece, Nicole Donovan; nephew; Jake Donovan; paternal grandmother, Marjorie Johnson; uncles, George and Donald Deck and Donald Johnson; aunts, Myrtle Kriner, Diane Coldsmith, Shirley Felmlee, and Jo Ann Timmons; many cousins; and many friends. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Robert and Fannie Deck; his paternal grandfather, Albertus Johnson; and uncle, Sid Deck.
His funeral service will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 3, 2016, at the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home & Crematorium, Inc., Shippensburg. The Rev. Richard Reese will officiate. Interment will be private. Viewing will be Friday evening from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Arbor Day Foundation "Trees In Memory" at www.arborday.org or Saintly Bernard's Rescue at www.saintlybernards.org.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.fogelsanger-brickerfuneralhome.com.
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A construction worker for Mercer Construction Company died and several others were injured in Lockhart, TX after an excavation trench collapsed.

Police: Rescuers pull body of man who died from Lockhart trench
4:21 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016



LOCKHART — 4:15 p.m. update: The body of the Lockhart worker who died Wednesday after a construction trench collapsed has been retrieved, authorities said.

The man was declared dead at the scene, Lockhart police Capt. John Roescher said. He hasn’t been identified.

Another person was also injured in the incident and was conscious and alert when taken to the hospital, authorities said.


A construction trench collapsed in Lockhart on Wednesday morning, killing one man and injuring another, authorities said. Photo by Katie Hall/AMERICAN-STATESMAN

3:10 p.m. update: A construction trench collapsed in Lockhart on Wednesday morning, killing one man and injuring another, authorities said.

Lockhart police Capt. John Roescher said the injured man was airlifted to a hospital and was conscious and alert.

The man who was killed was trapped underground as a trench was being built near the intersection of Clear Fork Street and City Line Road.

“Recovery of the body has been hampered by further collapse,” Roescher said.

Roescher could only confirm that the collapse was related to construction but he could not say which company was involved.

He said authorities so far were unsure of the time the collapse occurred, only that it happened before noon.

Federal investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are in charge of investigation.

Several public safety agencies are working to get the body out, including Lockhart EMS, police and fire departments and Chisholm Trail Fire Rescue.

Linda Baylis, who lives in the subdivision across the street from where the collapse happened, said construction workers had been working east to west along Clear Fork Street, laying what appeared to be large sewer lines. They had been doing that work for a couple of weeks, she said.

Earlier: A construction worker is dead and several others are injured after an excavation project collapsed in Lockhart, police officials said Wednesday afternoon.

Lockhart police said on their Facebook page about 12:40 p.m. that Clear Fork Street from Mockingbird Lane to City Line Road will be closed for several hours while crews respond to the incident. Area residents will be allowed to enter if they approach from the San Jacinto Street. The schools in the area can be accessed through West San Antonio Street, officials said.

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Worker killed in Lockhart construction mishap
Aug 31, 2016, 1:36pm CDT Updated Aug 31, 2016, 2:58pm CDT
 



A construction worker for Mercer Construction Company died and several others were injured Wednesday in Lockhart, southeast of Austin, after an excavation project collapsed.

The incident happened at around 12:30 p.m. near Clear Fork and City Line roads, west of Lockhart High School, according to KXAN. Someone who lives in the area said construction crews were digging a water line on Clear Fork Street for nearby home development before the collapse, the TV station reports.








The Caldwell County Courthouse in Lockhart. A construction worker died Wednesday

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KXAN reports that Clear Fork Road from Mockingbird to City Line Road will be blocked off during the investigation. The station also identified the company involved as Mercer, which is based in Edna, about 100 miles southwest of Houston.

Casey Perkins, director of the Austin office of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said Lockhart police reported the incident to his office and that OSHA has dispatched investigators to the scene.

The death comes less than a month after a balloon crashed near Lockhart, killing 16 people.

This is a developing story and we will update this post if we hear more.

Worker with ERSI fell 100 feet to his death from the decommissioned oil rig, Sovereign Explorer, in Sabine Pass.

Emergency vehicles are parked near a dock in Sabine Pass while first responders work to recover the body of a man who fell from a rig in Sabine Pass on Tuesday. Mary Meaux/The News



By L.V. Salinas

 
Sabine Pass rig worker’s death required divers’ aid

Published 9:50 am Wednesday, August 31, 2016


Scenes from emergency workers in search for rig worker:
 
A crane pulls a catwalk from the waterway adjacent to the decommissioned Sovereign Explorer rig in Sabine Pass on Tuesday. The structure had to be removed so dive teams could safely search for a man who fell from the rig.
Mary Meaux/The News  
A dive team with the Port Arthur Fire Department dock their boat to take a break after searching for the body of a man who fell from a rig in Sabine Pass on Tuesday.
Mary Meaux/The News  
A worker died after he fell from the decommissioned Sovereign Explorer rig in Sabine Pass on Tuesday.
Mary Meaux/The News  
A ‘restricted area’ sign on a fence near the Sovereign Explorer rig.
Mary Meaux/The News


A fatal rig accident caused authorities to arrive on scene and conduct an underwater search for the body of a Port Arthur worker in Sabine Pass.

The accident occurred on Tuesday morning in the 5500 block of South First Avenue when Ramiro Ayala, 40, fell about 100 feet into the water. He was working on the decommissioned oil rig, Sovereign Explorer, at the time of the accident.

Ayala was employed with ERSI.

Fire Marshal for the Port Arthur Fire Department, Paul Washburn, said they received the phone call regarding the incident shortly after 9 a.m.

“Workers thought they saw him fall,” the fire marshal said.

The PAFD and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department each issued a boat to aid in search efforts while the U.S. Coast Guard sent out two boats.

“Divers on the scene have to be careful due to hazards in the water,” Washburn said when explaining why PAFD divers had to go in two two-man teams.

Obstacles like poor visibility and scattered debris in the water hindered search efforts and made conditions “extremely dangerous for the divers,” according to Washburn.

In addition, a company crane had to be used to remove remains of a catwalk and other wreckage that had fallen with Ayala and had likely become entangled with the body.

Around 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, Ayala’s body was recovered from the water.

“Apparently, he had used safety equipment,” Washburn said, although the exact details of what caused him to fall were still unknown.

Ayala’s family has been notified; and, as of Tuesday evening, OSHA or Occupational Safety and Health Administration were onsite looking into it.

“We’re wrapping up search and recovery and shifting into investigation,” Washburn said.

The investigation is ongoing. 





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SABINE PASS -- A Port Arthur man working on an offshore rig in Sabine Pass fell 100 feet to his death Tuesday, local authorities said after spending six hours searching for him in the water.
Divers recovered the body of Ramiro Ayala, 40, about 3 p.m. near the rig, which is undergoing decommissioning.

Ayala worked for Environmental Remediation Services Inc., which was contracted to help take apart the rig.


The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched an investigation into the workplace death.

Ayala fell about 9 a.m., the Port Arthur Fire Department reported, from the rig Sovereign Explorer near the U.S. Coast Guard's Station Sabine, which is a search and recovery and law enforcement unit.

A piece of debris, which looked like a catwalk from the rig, might have figured in Ayala's fall, said Port Arthur Fire Marshal Paul Washburn.

A crane finally pulled the piece of catwalk from the water after a strap on the crane broke, further complicating the search. Ayala's body was not entangled in it, Washburn said

5 people killed in midair plane collision between a Hageland Aviation Cessna 208 Caravan and a Renfro's Alaskan Adventures Piper PA-18 Super Cub west-northwest of Russian Mission Airport (PARS), Russian Mission, Alaska.

The crashed Piper PA-18 Super Cub plane.


 

 The crashed Cessna 208 Caravan

Alaska State Troopers: All five people aboard 2 planes in mid-air crash are dead



Updated 1 hr 19 mins ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska State Troopers say all those on board two small planes died in a midair collision in the western part of the state.

Troopers did not say how many people were in the two aircraft, but the Alaska National Guard said earlier that there were a total of five on board the planes.

Troopers say the crash occurred northwest of the village of Russian Mission. Troopers say responders at the scene have confirmed there were no survivors on either of the planes.

Alaska National Guard officials say the collision occurred just before 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Officials say the planes involved in the crash are a Hageland Aviation Cessna 208 Caravan carrying three people and a Renfro's Alaskan Adventures Piper PA-18 super cub with two people aboard. Representatives of Hageland, which is operated by Ravn, Alaska, did not immediately respond with comment. A Renfro employee said the company was not immediately releasing information. 

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5 people killed in midair plane crash in Alaska, officials say

Published August 31, 2016

ANCHORAGE, Alaska –  Alaska State Troopers say all those on board two small planes died in a midair collision in the western part of the state.

Troopers did not say how many people were in the two aircraft, but the Alaska National Guard said earlier that there were a total of five on board the planes.
Troopers say the crash occurred northwest of the village of Russian Mission. 

Troopers say responders at the scene have confirmed there were no survivors on either of the planes.

Alaska National Guard officials say the collision occurred just before 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Officials say the planes involved in the crash are a Hageland Aviation Cessna 208 Caravan carrying three people and a Renfro's Alaskan Adventures Piper PA-18 super cub with two people aboard. Representatives of Hageland, which is operated by Ravn, Alaska, did not immediately respond with comment. A Renfro employee said the company was not immediately releasing information.

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Date:

	31-AUG-2016
Time:	-11:00
Type:	Piper PA-18 Super Cub
Owner/operator:	Renfro's Alaskan Adventures
Registration:
C/n / msn:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	3
Airplane damage:	Unknown
Location:	WNW of Russian Mission Airport (PARS), Russian Mission, AK -   United States of America
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Unknown
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
A midair collision occurred between a Cessna 208 Caravan and a Piper PA-18 Super Cub west-northwest of Russian Mission Airport (PARS), Russian Mission, Alaska. The airplane sustained unreported damage and the two occupants onboard received fatal injuries. The three occupants onboard the Cessna 208 were fatally injured.
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/31/5-people-killed-in-midair-plane-crash-alaska-troopers-say.html
http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/2-planes-crash-in-mid-air-collision-north-of-Bethel-Alaska-National-Guard-says-391927011.html
https://www.google.com/maps/@61.7757371,-161.3423464,13z/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-us

https://www.sportsmansnews.com/outfitter/platinum-outfitter/renfros-alaskan-adventures/