construction accident

Boston police identified the man later Thursday as James Chaffee, of Westfield. He was 38.

One person is dead and another is hospitalized after an incident at a construction site in Boston’s Seaport District.

A man is dead following an accident at a construction site in Boston’s Seaport District early Thursday morning, authorities confirmed. Emergency crews were called to the area of Northern Avenue around 6 a.m. One person died at the scene, Boston EMS said. Another person was taken to a nearby hospital but is expected to survive. Boston police identified the...

OSHA is investigating.

Two men on a driveway paving crew were seriously hurt when they received an electric shock while on the job Tuesday morning in Burlington, Massachusetts, authorities said. One of the contractors, a 20-year-old man, was shocked when he was driving a piece of equipment whose dump truck bucket touched live electrical wires while doing paving work on Carey Avenue at…

Wilson Ortega was all smiles and in high spirits speaking exclusively to NBC10 Boston from his hospital bed, with his father at his side. Ortega tried – with the little English he knows – to tell the world he’s not ready to turn his back on life. “In this moment, I feel very, very, very good,” the 34-year-old Dominican said….

A worker whose legs were pinned in a construction accident in South Boston is telling his story.

The owner of a Boston construction company appeared in court Wednesday on charges in the death of two of his workers last winter. The Atlantic Coast Utilities workers were hit by a truck and knocked into a 9-foot-deep trench on High Street, in the city’s Financial District, while working on a sewer project last February. Laurence Moloney, his company...

Atlantic Coast Utilities and two people affiliated with the company have been indicted on perjury charges in connection with an accident earlier this year where two of their employees died when they were struck by a dump truck and pushed into a 9-foot-deep trench at a sewer project in Boston. Atlantic Coast Utilities was indicted on four counts of perjury…

Investigators are trying to determine what went wrong after someone died at the construction site on Sumner Street in East Boston.

A construction worker has died at a work site in East Boston, police said, bringing the project and work to an immediate stop Wednesday. The incident took place at a building under construction on Sumner Street near Paris Street, according to the Boston Police Department. Investigators were called to the scene around 11:20 a.m. Initially, police said the man died…

Federal workplace safety regulators on Wednesday proposed $1.3 million in penalties for the construction company that employed two men who died when they were struck by a dump truck and pushed into a 9-foot deep trench at a sewer project in Boston in February. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Atlantic Coast Utilities LLC/Advanced Utilities Inc., owner Laurence Moloney,…

A construction accident left three people hurt — one of whom was flown to a hospital — in Norwood, Massachusetts, Friday, officials said. The people had fallen about 25 feet off a ladder, fire officials said, leaving two of them in critical condition. The third was in serious condition, the Norwood Fire Department said. The accident took place on Buckminster…

The man had been working in the foundation of the residence when a wall collapsed and pinned him to the ground.

A man was killed after a wall collapsed at ahome under construction in Newton.

A worker at a Needham construction site was injured Friday after falling several feet.

One construction worker died and another is injured after a stairwell collapsed in Cambridge on Wednesday.

An active investigation continues on High Street in Boston, after two men were hit by a vehicle and killed in a construction incident.

In a news conference about a construction incident, officials say two people were killed in Boston Wednesday morning.