Industrial Accident Lawyer Blog

Two Georgia construction workers with Myrick Marine in Savannah Georgia, working at Crescent Towing and Moran Towing's shared dock off Fig Island Drive, have been severely injured in a Georgia work accident while building a tugboat dock near the Savannah River. On Friday, January 14th 2011, a pylon fell from an excavator, crushing and killing Greg Royer and seriously injuring John Pugh. Mr. Pugh is still at Memorial University Medical Center in critical condition.

Myric Marine was the company building the dock at the time of the incident. Both men were standing on a sea wall installing wooden pylons when one of the pylons fell from the excavator.

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A massive explosion ripped through the Federal-Mogul plant in Blacksburg, Virginia last week. The Federal Mogul Explosion caused severe burn injuries to four contractors working for a company called LCM performing routine duct work, removing aluminum dust. Jeffrey Hodges, age 45, of Bototeourt County, Virginia, and Tommy Bonds, age 53 (of Narrows, Virginia), are listed in serious condition at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Danny Collins of Pearisburg, Virginia, and John Sprangler of Roanoke, Virginia, were also injured in the Federal-Mogul explosion, and have been released from the local hospital.

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