A 28-year-old father of six was killed while working at a steel plant in northwest Indiana, steel workers union officials and family members told ABC7.
A 40-year-old construction worker died after falling off of a roof Wednesday afternoon in the northwest suburbs, police said.
An aluminum spool fell from a crane onto a worker, killing him at a west suburban warehouse on Tuesday. Police say spools are possibly about 48,000 pounds.
The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and left four others missing, state media reports said.
An investigation was underway after a worker died at a California factory that makes a well-known brand of frozen burritos.
In June 2024, David O'Donnell and another worker plummeted eight stories while on scaffolding at the new cancer center on the University of Chicago medical campus.