Category: work zone crash

Jacksonville’s Blount Island Lands Death in the New Year Duval County workers comp

Jacksonville’s Blount Island Lands Death in the New Year

On February 25th, a young male, Timothy Middlebrooks was clearing the way for the forklift holding pallets on Blount Island, a Jaxport-owned island, when the pallet began to destabilize. The forklift was moving 500 pounds of paper product at the time; however, as Middlebrooks was walking by, some of the product fell from the pallet,…

DRIVERLESS CRASH TRUCKS AIM TO IMPROVE SAFETY FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION CREWS – Lake Panasoffkee | Sumterville | Bushnell | Coleman

DRIVERLESS CRASH TRUCKS AIM TO IMPROVE SAFETY FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION CREWS – Lake Panasoffkee | Sumterville | Bushnell | Coleman

FLORIDA – According to the associated press, Florida’s first self-driving car will not be a glamorous sports car or an ultramodern vehicle produced by one of the global tech giants, but will instead be a modest roadside construction truck that is “meant to be hit.”  The nation’s highways are a key part of its infrastructure….