Iowa Workers’ Compensation Accidents of Interest

We’ve got a Dubuque School District employee struck and killed by a snow plow as he was working in a parking lot. There is a video clip from KCRG-TV 9 News team.

And we have a story about whistleblowers and food safety workers. There is a story in Yahoo News and another on the Food Poison Journal website. This is kind of a nice website I’ll have to revisit this one some time.

Then there is an explosion at a plant that kills a worker. It was a magnesium plant explosion in Venice, Illinois.  

Then a budget analyst from the ISU graduate college died in a car accident. She was the passenger in the F-350 that hit the F-250 that failed to stop for the stop sign. Her husband is Marc Rogers an assistant hockey coach to the Cyclone Hockey team. The Iowa State Daily has a better report than the Des Moines Register. Just follow that last link. I’ll tell you this guy has a claim for the estate and for himself.

Lastly a railroad worker operating a jackhammer was injured and is suing the Union Pacific Railroad after a job injury in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

You can follow these and other stories about work injuries here or at The Verdict on the Lombardi Law Firm website.

New food safety law protects whistleblowers
Bradenton Herald
By STEVE KARNOWSKI - AP Food industry workers who become whistleblowers gained protection against ... Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Health, Education, ...

School Worker Run Over, Killed - Local News - Des Moines, IA ...
Officials with Dubuque Community Schools said a school employee was killed in an accident Tuesday morning.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../ns/local_news-des_moines_ia/

School Worker Run Over, Killed - Des Moines News Story - KCCI Des ...
DUBUQUE, Iowa -- Officials with Dubuque Community Schools said a school employee ... School Worker Run Over, Killed. POSTED: 8:24 am CST February 8, 2011 ...
www.kcci.com/news/26787383/detail.html

Rosemount / Worker injured in explosion at plant - TwinCities.com
Another employee took the injured worker, Jacob Denn, 20, of Hastings, to Apple Valley ... St. Louis Park teen to use insanity defense in Iowa killings ...
www.twincities.com/washington/ci_17333864

Victim Identified In Dubuque School District Snowplow Accident
KCRG
(Katie Wiedemann/KCRG-TV9) By Richard Pratt DUBUQUE, Iowa - A school employee killed Tuesday in an early-morning accident at Dubuque Community Schools was ...
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Dubuque schools employee killed by school vehicle - KWWL.com ...
KWWL.com - News & Weather for Waterloo, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids & Iowa City, ... support and counseling to the victim's family members and co-workers. ...
www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=13989333

Police Identify Dubuque School District Employee Killed Tuesday ...
Iowa education agency to lay off 50 workers. February 13, 2011 18:28 EST .... Firefighter Injured Putting Out Fire At Iowa City Apartment Complex ...
www.kgan.com/shared/newsroom/top.../kgan_vid_4854.shtml

Iowa State University budget analyst dies in car accident
Iowa State Daily
The driver of the vehicle that hit them was transported by lifeflight to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines and was injured, according to the crash reports from Iowa State Patrol. A seatbelt was worn at the time of the accident. ...

Union Pacific sued over jackhammer injuries
St. Clair Record
He claims he was injured while operating a jackhammer on a job near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Welding accuses Union Pacific of failing to provide a safe work ...
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