A man killed in a rollover crash Tuesday was identified Wednesday as Jared Baker, a hatchery specialist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

Utah DWR employee killed in Sevier County rollover crash
By Carter Williams | Posted Jun 28th, 2017 @ 10:36am


SIGURD, Sevier County — A man killed in a rollover crash Tuesday was identified Wednesday as a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources employee.

Wildlife officials said Jared Baker, a hatchery specialist for the wildlife division, died from injuries suffered in the crash.

Emergency crews responded to a report of a rollover near 1190 N. State St. in Sigurd about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sevier County Sheriff Nathan Curtis said. Witnesses told investigators Baker was driving a truck northbound when the vehicle drifted off the road, overcorrected and flipped into the air as it went back onto the roadway, Curtis said.

The truck landed on its cab. Richfield City Fire Department extracted Baker from the truck, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Curtis said Baker was wearing a seat belt but suffered “significant injuries” in the crash.

Utah Highway Patrol requested the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office to investigate the crash since it involved a Utah Department of Wildlife Resources employee, Curtis added.

Fish culture section

Responsibilities The fish culture section of the Fisheries Experiment Station (FES) is responsible for the production of fish for the research program and development of brood stock for the State fish culture programs. A portion of the Fish Culture Training Class is taught by the fish culture section. June suckers, an endangered species endemic to Utah Lake, is being cultured for future brood stock. We are also conducting feed trials and evaluating the use of hormones to help induce spawn on the June sucker. We culture remnant populations of native cutthroat, Least chub and occasionally special hybrids.
Water source
We have 16 artesian wells. Temperatures range from 54°F to 65°F. Our total flow is around 4.5 cfs.
Personnel
Roger Mellenthin: Hatchery Superintendent (Wildlife Biologist III), transferred here from Midway Hatchery in Dec 1997. Has worked for Utah State University, Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and Nevada Department of Wildlife. Has worked extensively with endangered fish, especially the June Sucker. B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife from Utah State University, Minor in German Language, received MBA at the University of Phoenix.
Phone number: 435-752-1066, ext. 208
Email: RogerMellenthin@utah.gov
Mark Brough: Wildlife Specialist
Phone number: 435-752-1066, ext. 219
Email: MarkBrough@utah.gov
Gary Howes: Wildlife Specialist
Phone number: 435-752-1066, ext. 219
Email: GaryHowes@utah.gov
Jared Baker: Wildlife Specialist
Phone number: 435-752-1066, ext. 219
Email: JLBaker@utah.gov


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SIGURD, Sevier County — A driver was killed in a rollover crash Tuesday afternoon, officials confirmed.

Shortly after 2:30 p.m., emergency responders were dispatched to 1190 N. State in Sigurd, said Sevier County Sheriff Nathan Curtis in a prepared statement. According to witnesses, a truck was traveling northbound when it went off the east side of the road. As the truck started to come back on the road, it began to drift sideways. When the truck came back onto the pavement, it flipped into the air and came down on the cab of the truck.

Emergency personnel arrived at the scene but were unable to pull the driver from the truck, Curtis said. Richfield City Fire Department responded to remove the driver from the vehicle.

“Despite (firefighters') best efforts, the subject was deceased due to significant injuries sustained in the crash,” Curtis said.

Because the truck was a Department of Natural Resources vehicle, Utah Highway Patrol requested the Sevier County Sheriff's Office to investigate the accident, Curtis said.

The driver’s identity was not released pending family notification. Curtis said the driver was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.

The city of St. Louis now says they will be shutting off a steam line that runs under Kiener Plaza for the summer, after a toddler suffered second-degree burns after stepping on one of the manholes

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) -

The city of St. Louis now says they will be shutting off a steam line that runs under Kiener Plaza for the summer, after News 4 Investigates repeatedly tested temperatures at two manholes in the park.

Meanwhile, the toddler who was suffered second-degree burns after stepping on one of the manholes Sunday, has now been released from the hospital, but will require on-going treatment.

Monday, city officials told News 4 that a steam line under the park had sprung a leak, causing two manhole covers in the park to rise to temperatures well over 200 degrees. They said that the leak had been repaired and that the manholes would start to cool down.

However, News 4 Investigative Reporter Lauren Trager repeatedly tested the temperature of the manhole covers and Tuesday, discovered they were still in excess of 180 degrees.

Late Tuesday, city officials revised their earlier statement and said that the problem in the steam line was "re-occurring." They said they would shut down the steam line for the entire summer, as the company that operates the line works on a permanent fix.

It all started as a good time in Kiener Plaza Sunday night; 2-year-old Lila was having a blast with her parents at the splash pad and the playground.

But what happened next left Lila in the hospital, with severe burns on her feet.

Her parents are from out of town. They contacted News 4 because they were so upset about what happened, but were advised by an attorney not to talk on camera. They told us off-camera that Lila stepped on a manhole cover marked “Steam” in the park, just for a split-second, and badly burned her bare feet. The news of what happened to Lila, though, is also shocking to other parents playing with their kids at Kiener.

The plaza recently underwent a massive, multi-million dollar renovation and just re-opened last month.

With fun to be had, many children have been wandering around the park without shoes. Parents say they never expected there would be burning steam under the surface of the park.

Earlier Monday, the two steam manhole covers were free and clear for anyone to step on, but just after News 4 started making calls, crews came and barricaded them.

“That seems very dangerous because this is a place kids run around barefoot. So that seems pretty dangerous to have that over there,” said Nanci, a mother whose kids were playing in Kiener on Monday.

“That's very scary,” said another mom, CJ Jones.

News 4 wanted to know how could this happen.

The Gateway Arch Park Foundation, which designed the remodel of the park would not talk on camera but passed us off to the city.

No one from the city would talk on camera either, but off-camera an official said the reason the manhole was so hot was because there was a leak in the steam line that runs underneath the park.

The city said Monday that the company that operates it, Trigen, had already fixed the leak and told News 4 that the temperatures of the manhole covers would start to cool down.

Now, city officials say they will turn off the steam line for the entire summer. The line typically services commercial buildings downtown for heating purposes.

The company, under city supervision, will be working on a permanent fix.

Parents still want to know why there's a steam line running underneath the park in the first place.

“I think they should do a better job with their layouts and design and engineering to think about the possibilities of everything that can go wrong to keep the public safe,” Jones said.

A United Parcel Service worker was seriously hurt after he fell 25 feet while working on a grounded cargo plane at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

UPS worker seriously hurt in fall at Honolulu airport cargo facility

By Star-Advertiser staff
June 27, 2017
Updated June 27, 2017 5:21pm

A United Parcel Service worker was seriously hurt today after he fell 25 feet while working on a grounded cargo plane at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

American Medical Response paramedics responded to the fall at about 6:15 a.m. at 128 Mokuea Place, the air cargo facilities section of the airport.

Shayne Enright, spokeswoman for the Emergency Medical Services, reported the UPS employee was inside the grounded cargo plane when he fell onto the tarmac. He sustained head injuries and was treated and taken to a hospital in serious condition. It’s unclear what type of work the employee was doing when he fell.

Jim Mayer, spokesman of UPS Airlines based in Kentucky, said they will conduct an investigation into the accident. “Safety is a core value at UPS,” Mayer said.

Tim Sakahara, spokesman for the Department of Transportation, said airport operations were not affected.

Glenn F. Lough, 47, of Fraziers Bottom, a 25-year DOH engineer was killed Tuesday when the state truck he was riding in on Interstate 79 south of Clendenin was T-boned by an SUV being driven by Edna Martin Gallian, 80, of Clendenin, who also died

CLENDENIN, W.Va. — A 25-year DOH engineer was killed Tuesday when the state truck he was riding in on Interstate 79 south of Clendenin was T-boned by an SUV being driven by a Kanawha County woman, who also died, authorities said.

Glenn F. Lough, 47, of Fraziers Bottom, and two other workers were heading back to the DOH’s Division 1 offices in Charleston at around 4:40 p.m. Tuesday when an SUV, driven by Edna Martin Gallian, 80, of Clendenin, came from the northbound lanes and slammed into the southbound DOH vehicle.

Given the speed of both vehicles, the DOH driver would have had little time to react, Kanawha County Sheriff’s Dept. Sgt. Brian Humphreys said.

“When you’re going around 140 miles an hour (combined) it’s very difficult for anybody to be able to adjust their own vehicle to account from where the oncoming car may be coming from,” Humphreys said. “The last thing you’re worrying about when you’re coming down the highway is a car coming in the opposite direction.”

Investigators don’t know yet what caused Gallian, a longtime realtor in the Kanawha Valley, to lose control of her vehicle, Humphreys said.

“Regardless of age it could be a medical condition. At any point, anybody, could be subject to something that incapacitates them while they’re driving, something unexpected,” he said. “That may be revealed with help from the state Medical Examiner’s Office but it may not be.”

The two other DOH workers, in the Ford Expedition with Lough, were injured in the collision and were still hospitalized Wednesday.

State DOH spokesman Brent Walker called Lough “a valuable team member.” He had performed several duties for the DOH during his career.

Walker called the deadly crash “an awful situation” for those who knew both victims.

“We’ve just turned our attention to the family and to the coworkers,” he said.

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UPDATE: 6/28/17 @ 11:10 a.m.

KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) -  According to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, a Honda Pilot traveling north crossed the median and struck a southbound Ford Expedition in a T-bone style crash around 4:00 p.m. yesterday near mile marker 16 on I-79.  The Ford SUV was a WV DOH vehicle.

The driver of the Honda, Edna Martin Gallian, 80, of Clendenin, WV, and a passenger in the Ford, Glenn F. Lough, 47, of Fraziers Bottom, WV were killed in the crash.

The driver of the Ford and another passenger in that vehicle were injured in the crash.  A third vehicle was damaged by debris from the crash, but no one in that vehicle was injured.

The highway was closed for several hours during the investigation and cleanup.  There were no other occupants in the Honda.  The Sheriff’s Office still does not know the reason the vehicle crossed the median.

The investigation is being handled by a crash reconstruction expert with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office.

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UPDATE: 6/27/17 @ 8:40 p.m.

KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) - Interstate 79 southbound at mile marker 16 south of the Clendenin exit has reopened following a deadly crash that killed two people, including a DOH worker, and injured 2 others.

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ORIGINAL: 6/27/17 @ 5:45 p.m. 

KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) - Two people, including a DOH worker, were killed Tuesday afternoon following a double fatal car crash on Interstate 79.
The accident occurred just after 4 p.m. on Interstate 79 southbound at mile marker 15 in between the Elkview and Clendenin exits.

According to Chuck Runyon, Chief of Emergency Operations for the WV Department of Transportation, a vehicle was driving northbound when it crossed the median, drove into the southbound lanes and struck a DOH truck.
One person in the vehicle and one person in the DOH truck were killed in the crash. Two other people received non-life threatening injuries and were transported to the hospital.

The WV Department of Highways says that traffic is being diverted off of Interstate 79 at exit 19 onto US Route 119.

We have a crew at the scene, and will provide more information as soon as we receive it.

An electrical worker, 46, with Barton Malow, who was not wearing fall protection gear, died Wednesday morning after falling 75 feet off a catwalk at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

The death of an electrical worker who fell 75 feet at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit was accidental, according to the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office.

Michael Morrison died of multiple injuries in the Wednesday morning fall, said Lisa Croff, director of Communications & Media Relations for the Wayne County Department of Health, Veterans & Community Wellness.

Detroit Police Media Relations Director Michael Woody said earlier in the week that investigators believe the death was a suicide, based in part on the statements of witnesses.


Croff said the accidental ruling was based on Morrison's injuries. That could change as the police investigation unfolds, she said.

The Detroit Fire Department was dispatched to the arena construction site at 8:03 a.m. Wednesday. A fire department official said Morrison went into cardiac arrest.

He was pronounced dead at Detroit Receiving Hospital.




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A worker died Wednesday morning at the site of Little Caesars Arena in Detroit after falling from a catwalk.

According to authorities, medical crews were called to Little Caesars Arena around 8 a.m. Wednesday to a report of an injured worker. Official say a man fell from a catwalk at the construction site from about 75 feet in the air.

Detroit Fire Department Deputy Commissioner Dave Fornell said the department received the call just after 8 Wednesday morning. Crews started CPR and then rushed him to Detroit Receiving where he later died.


Fornell told FOX 2 the man went into cardiac arrest after the fall.

Fornell said the man is 46 years old and is believed to be an electrician.

His identity is not being released.



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An electrical worker died this morning after falling 75 feet at the new Little Caesars Arena construction site, Detroit Deputy Fire Commission Dave Forell said.

"We were dispatched about 8:03 this morning on the report of a fall victim," Forell said. "He'd fallen approximately 75 feet and he was in cardiac arrest."

Forell said coworkers had begun CPR on the man and emergency crews continued it as they transported him to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Forell said the man was not wearing fall protection gear when emergency crews arrived, but that it could have been removed by coworkers who were administering CPR.

"We don't know what happened," Forell said. "Was he working with anyone else? We don't know. But that kind of fall is not usually survivable."

Forell said the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate the accident.

Ryan Maibach, CEO of Barton Malow, a company involved with the construction project, issued a brief statement this morning.

"A serious incident occurred at the job site today. Our thoughts and prayers are with the individual and his family. We are gathering more information and additional details will be provided when appropriate."

A construction worker leaving the site this morning, who didn't want to be named, told a reporter that workers were being sent home for the day.

"We're all doing OK," he said. "It was probably an accident. Safety comes first."


Workers leave the Little Caesar's Arena construction site on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, after an electrical worker fell 75 feet to his death. (Photo: Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press)

The death comes almost 15 years after another worker died during the construction of nearby Ford Field.

Gjon Gojcaj, a 42-year-old father of five from Macomb Township, died July 30, 2002 while painting trusses at Ford Field. He was more than 120 feet up in a Condor 150S aerial work platform, which tipped over when he tried to move it.

MIOSHA conducted a 9-month investigation and issued citations and penalties against Brockman Equipment, Inc. for $286,000, and Thomarios Painting for $270,000.

"Both companies were aware of the hazardous conditions involved in painting the trusses and yet they willfully placed these workers in harm's way with a pattern of indifference for their safety," MIOSHA said in its report.


An electrical worker died this morning after falling 75 feet at the new Little Caesars Arena construction site in Detroit, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (Photo: Kathleen Galligan/DFP)


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Worker dies after falling 75 feet off catwalk at Detroit's Little Caesars Arena

By Ken Haddad 
 Updated: 12:41 PM, June 28, 2017

 
DETROIT, MI - An electrical worker died Wednesday morning after falling 75 feet off a catwalk at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

Deputy Detroit Fire Commissioner David Fornell says the 46-year-old man was in cardiac arrest when paramedics arrived about 8 a.m.

Other workers had started cardiopulmonary resuscitation which first responders continued. The man was taken to a Detroit hospital where he was pronounced dead.

He was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital. The 46-year-old man has died.

Fornell says officials were told the man was an electrical worker and may have fallen from a catwalk. He says the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration likely will investigate.

Ryan Maibach, CEO of Barton Mallow, said additional details would be given when appropriate.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the individual and his family," Maibach said.

It is unclear when construction will resume.

Ilitch Holdings released the following statement:

“Our thoughts, condolences and prayers go out to the family, friends and co-workers affected by this tragedy. We lost a member of our crew today, and it is an extremely sad and difficult time for our entire organization and for the many dedicated men and women building this project. The safety and security of everyone on our job sites remains our highest priority, and more information will be shared as it becomes available throughout the investigation.”

The arena will be home to the NHL's Detroit Red Wings and the NBA's Pistons. It is scheduled to open this fall.