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INDIANAPOLIS – Worker safety is on the front of everyone’s mind in a new cooperative agreement between Fred Weber, Inc and the Indiana Department of Labor (IDOL). The agreement gives IDOL permission to review and approve Fred Weber, Inc’s written safety program for its workers on the I-69 construction project to begin in Greene County later this year. The collaboration will remain in place for two years.

The I-69 extension is a small part of the controversial and ambitious highway project that will ultimately stretch from Indianapolis to Evansville and beyond. The project will take many years and require hundreds of construction workers. The 11-mile stretch of highway effected by this agreement is a section running into Greene County, south of Bloomington.

The contract requires Fred Weber to keep worker injuries and illnesses to a rate that is 13% lower than industry averages. It also requires that any work performed above six feet in height will be done utilizing safety harness and fall prevention equipment.

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The law office of Montross Miller Muller Mendelson & Kennedy provides individual attention to every client who seeks legal assistance with their personal injury case. With nearly three decades of experience helping injured Indiana residents and their families, the attorneys take great pride in their ability to carefully evaluate the subtleties of a case.

Whether the injury is a result of a careless truck driver, a construction accident, or a faulty product, our attorneys have experience provide the expertise you require.

Over the years, the firm has developed strong working relationships with many professionals in a variety of specialty areas. Physicians, including neurologists, surgeons, orthopedists, and physical therapists assess the injuries of the client and help determine the necessary plan of care for injured. Economists are secured to calculate the true value of the case, evaluating the cost of lost wages, future expenses, and the cost of current and future medical care.

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The Indiana office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating a construction accident in Noblesville that left one worker seriously injured.

The accident occurred when the man, an employee of Filson Earthworks Company was operating an excavator. A scoop suddenly detached from the excavator, hit the ground and bounced right back, striking the worker on the head. He fell into the 10 foot deep trench. Shockingly, it was more than an hour before the worker could be rescued and emergency personnel could transfer him to a hospital. That's because the walls of this trench had not been shored, and the man had fallen into the most delicate part of the trench. Emergency personnel had to shore up the walls of the trench before the worker could be rescued. That took about an hour.

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A recent pipeline explosion in faraway California is focusing attention on the safety of Indiana’s very own gas transmission pipelines. Federal agencies believe Indiana's safety record where gas pipelines are concerned is good, but all it takes is a single corroded and disintegrating pipe or excavation on the wrong site, for disaster to strike. Unfortunately, it seems that years of complacency could have placed Indiana's gas pipelines at risk of a disaster.

Earlier this month, a gas pipeline in San Bruno, California exploded, killing 8 people and leaving several injured. The explosion caused millions of dollars worth of property damage, and rendered several people homeless.

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Utility crews, emergency responders, police, fire personnel, and construction workers risk their lives every day in an effort to assist the residents of Indiana. With each road construction site, traffic stop and roadside response, these men and women place their own personal safety on the line.

In recent years, Indiana and Federal legislators have added safeguards designed to reduce that risk. These safety measures include a requirement for drivers to reduce their speed, change lanes whenever possible, and always yield the right-of-way to personnel responding to an emergency and requiring personnel at the roadside to wear reflective gear.

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Four Indiana companies face fines and citations related to the construction death of an Indiana steelworker earlier this summer. Stanley Roberts of Indianapolis, died in the June accident. He was working on the new expansion project for the Indianapolis Convention Center. Roberts was working in a lift that drove into a hole, throwing him from the basket and to his death. The hole, two-foot square was nearly a foot deep.

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A 55-year-old construction worker died this past week in an accident at a downtown Indianapolis building site. The victim, Stanley Roberts of Indianapolis, was an ironworker employed by Harmon Steel. He was working on the new Indiana Convention Center construction site where approximately 250 construction workers are employed on the expansion project.

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Another Indiana construction fatality has occurred near Indianapolis. Randy Gardner, a pipe line worker from Tennessee, was killed when construction equipment fell on him late last week. The accident occurred in Decatur County near St. Omer.

Mr. Gardner was working on the Rockies Express Pipeline, which will carry natural gas from Colorado to Ohio. He was an employee of Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Company, based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma and had worked with the firm for two years.

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An Indiana construction worker drowned under a Wabash, Indiana street on January 27, 2009. Stephen A. Walls, an employee of Environmental Construction, Inc., was working in a water main access pit when he was pinned by equipment and water from a nearby leak filled the space.

Despite attempts by Mr. Walls, he was unable to free himself from the pit. Workers at the scene were unable to rescue him from the water main access trench. The pit was drained and he was rushed to a local hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival. The final cause of death is pending autopsy.

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