Category: work zone related 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,…

Road Construction Accidents – Work Zone Related Crashes on Interstate Highway

NATIONAL – “The number of people killed as a result of crashes in work zones remains significant,” the Federal Highway Administration says on its website http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/economicrecovery/workzones.htm “Safety and mobility impacts from work zones will likely be magnified with the infusion of a large number of new projects.” Transportation officials are responding pretty much as they…