Man Killed Loading Road Salt at Kentucky Facility Identified
A coroner's office has identified a Kentucky worker who was killed while loading road salt into a maintenance facility.
January 1, 2018
Man Killed Loading Road Salt at Kentucky Facility Identified
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A coroner's office has identified a Kentucky worker who was killed while loading road salt into a maintenance facility.
The Jefferson County coroner's office tells media outlets that 52-year-old Trent Haines of Louisville died from blunt force injuries last Wednesday. The death has been ruled an accident.
Louisville Public Works spokesman Harold Adams said Haines and another worker were loading salt on a dome conveyor at a road maintenance facility when they got caught up in a machine.
Louisville police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said the second worker's injuries were not expected to be life-threatening. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident.
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Haines, Trent P.,
52 years old, passed away Wednesday, December 27, 2017. He was a Jehovah's Witness and member of the Parkland Congregation.
Mr.
Haines was preceded in death by his father, Louis Haines. He is
survived by his wife, Leeshell Haines; mother, Barbara Haines; brother,
Twine Haines, and a host of aunts, uncles, family and friends.
A construction worker was hospitalized Tuesday morning after falling down an elevator shaft at the Wynn Boston Harbor Casino in Everett, Massachusetts.
A spokesperson for the massive construction project said the worker somehow fell down a shaft at about 7:15 a.m., shortly after his shift began.
The worker, who has not been identified, was conscious and alert when he was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment. His exact condition is unclear.
It's unknown which contracting company the man works for, according to the spokesperson.
The $2.4 billion Wynn Boston Harbor casino project is on track to be finished by June 2019. It is the largest single-phase private development in the history of Massachusetts.
With 2 million workforce hours on the site so far and more than 1,000 construction workers on the site per day, the Wynn spokesperson said the incident is the first significant one.
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Worker injured in fall down elevator shaft at Wynn Casino construction site
EVERETT, MA (WHDH) - A worker was injured Tuesday morning after falling down an elevator shaft at the Wynn Casino construction site in Everett.
Casino officials tell 7News that the worker was just starting his shift when he fell down a shaft in the garage area around 7 a.m.
The man was taken to Mass General Hospital with apparent non-life-threatening injuries, according to Everett fire officials. He was said to be conscious and awake after the fall, but did suffer a lacerated bicep.
No additional details were immediately available.
Hartford, Connecticut
Slippery conditions from a Saturday snowfall helped cause a big increase in the number of accidents investigated by State Police during the long New Year’s holiday weekend.
From 12:01 a.m. on Friday to 11:59 p.m. on Monday, troopers responded to 494 accidents.
That number is a nearly 80 percent increase from the 276 accidents investigated in the 2016 New Year’s weekend.
Troopers also reported that 54 people were injured in those accidents, 20 more than the 2016 figure.
Two of those accidents were fatalities.
On Friday night, an Ansonia man was killed in a rear-end collision on Route 8 in Trumbull. William Pollock, 55, was driving south around 5 p.m. Friday, near Exit 8, when he struck the rear of a box truck and became entangled with the vehicle, police said.
Also on Friday night, Devra Lee Koromanian was killed after being ejected from her vehicle after hitting a Jersey barrier on Route 3 in Glastonbury.
The snow began falling just after sunrise on Saturday. By 9:30 a.m. there had been at least 40 reported accidents along the state’s main roadways, including I-95, the Merritt Parkway and I-84.
A dispatcher for Troop A said there were nearly 10 accidents between 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. from Exit 20 on I-84 westbound up to the New York state line.
About half were multi-car accidents with no major injuries. The rest were cars that spun out on the icy roadway, often into the guardrail, the dispatcher said.
With the snow falling, speeds on major roads were reduced to about 10 mph for most of the morning.
The weather may have also been a factor in fewer speeding tickets handed out during the holiday weekend.
In 2016, state police issued 611 speeding tickets, nearly a 100 fewer than the year before.
There was also a 22 percent reduction in the total number of moving violations this year. The 1,410 moving violations included unsafe lane changes, cell phone use and failure to signal.
State police say 28 people for DUI, six fewer than the previous year.
