Company Fined After Pottstown Flagger Killed At Lancaster Construction Site: Osha
A Berks County company has been fined after a construction flagger was killed in a 2024 crash in Lancaster County, federal officials announced.
Linetta Wells, 56, of Pottstown, died on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, when an SUV struck her as she directed traffic at Stone Mill and Plymouth roads in Manor Township around 7:38 a.m., according to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office. She was pronounced dead at the scene one hour later, the office said.
Wells was employed by Wexcon, Inc., a utility contracting company based in Centre Township. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) …
7 Dead, 114 Sickened: Legionnaires’ Outbreak In Harlem Declared Over
Harlem’s Legionnaires’ outbreak is officially over, health officials said, after sickening over 100 people and killing seven.
Residents and visitors to Central Harlem are no longer at increased risk of contracting Legionnaires’ disease, the New York City Health Department announced Friday, Aug. 29. The last reported case connected to the cluster began showing symptoms on Saturday, Aug. 9.
In total, the outbreak sickened 114 people, 90 of whom were hospitalized. Six patients remain in the hospital, and seven have died, as Daily Voice reported.
Most of those infected had underlyin…
Worker Ejected, Killed After Excavator Overturns At Carmel Construction Site
A construction worker from Dutchess County was killed in a workplace accident involving an overturned excavator at a job site in Putnam, police said.
The incident happened on Wednesday, April 30, shortly after 9:30 a.m., when Carmel Police were notified of a workplace accident with injuries at a construction site at 6 Baldwin Place Rd., the department announced on Thursday, May 1.
Responding officers, along with units from the Mahopac Falls Volunteer Fire Department, Carmel Ambulance, and the Putnam County Bureau of Emergency Services, arrived to find that an excavator had overturned,…
Man Found Sleeping In Stolen UConn Van Is Arrested
A man who police discovered sleeping in a stolen vehicle has been arrested.
Josue Pinto, 39, of New Britain, was arrested on Monday, Sept. 28, at around 10 a.m., and charged with larceny in the second degree, police said.
South Windsor Police were alerted to Pinto when they received a report of “suspicious circumstances” at a construction site: a man sleeping in a blue Dodge with “UConn” on the side, police said.
When police arrived on the scene they found Pinto who allegedly admitted to entering a UConn office on the Storrs campus, taking a set of keys, and stealing a van, police said.
