Firefighters and an acrobat among the week's tragic deaths
July 6, 2013
Tragedies in Arizona and Las Vegas, midair near-misses at U.S. airports and the persistent increase in grain bin fatalities are among this week's top EHS-related stories from ISHN.com:
Residents of Arizona are reeling from the deaths of nineteen firefighters yesterday -- members of an elite firefighting team who perished while battling a fast-moving wildfire.
Often, state and federal agencies assess fines for safety violations after an injury has a occurred. But in Arizona, the state’s worker safety commission announced recently that it will fine three Tucson businesses for violations ranging from unsafe scaffolding to lack of dust control. None of the violations involved injuries.
Brent H. Weidman, formerly the president of a water and sewer company in Yuma, Ariz., has been sentenced to probation and community service, the AP reported.
