Two employees of a pyrotechnics company used at the PNC Field in Moosic, Pennsylvania to produce fireworks displays were injured this past Friday evening.  The workers were putting on a fireworks show after the Scraton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees minor league baseball game when the accident occurred.

Officials have not released the workers’ names, conditions, or injuries, however, a family member of one of the workers told reporters that they were in stable condition.  Investigators are looking into what caused the accident that left the two workers injured.

If you or someone you love has been injured on the job, contact the Philadelphia workers’ compensation attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 to learn more about your rights.

A New York woman’s arm was severed in a terrible workplace accident last Friday afternoon at Brand Packaging Group Inc..  37-year-old Beatriz Blas of Wyandanch was using a packing machine when her arm got stuck in the machine.  Blas screamed and a coworker quickly came and freed her from the machine and picked up her severed arm.

Emergency officials airlifted Blas to Nassau University Medical Center to be treated.  Blas was later transferred to Stony Brook University Medical Center where doctors are trying to reattach her arm.  Authorities say she is in stable condition.

Witnesses to the accident and company officials were unsure as to how Blas’ arm became stuck in the machine.  The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be investigating the accident.

One construction worker was killed and others were injured in a workplace accident while working for the Sewickley Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The accident occurred in the afternoon on July 28th when 31-year old Jack Hogan of Baden was working in a 30 foot deep hole.  Baden tried to climb out but fell backwards back down into the hole.  Hogan began to feel faint and radioed for help.  The plant supervisor, an inspector for the borough’s engineering firm, and a construction worker responded to his call for help.  All three say they were overcome by the fumes coming from the hole Hogan was trapped in.

Shawn Haynes, one of the rescuers, stated, “As soon as I got down in there I tapped one of the other guys that came down on the back, said I wasn’t feeling so well and that’s all I remember.  They said I dropped like a ton of bricks”.  Another rescuer was overcome by the gas and fell twenty feet.  The two other men then also became sick from the gas and fell down the hole on top of him.

All four men were rushed to Allegheny General Hospital for injuries.  Haynes was released later that night and Hogan later passed away at the hospital.

Investigators detected a small amount of methane gas when they arrived at the scene of the accident.  They are now trying to determine if the methane was what killed Hogan and injured the other men.