Brewery argument erupts into workplace fatality
- A contract employee at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Jacksonville, Florida, is dead after an argument with another contractor worker turned deadly.
- Antoine Audry, 22, suffered stab wounds to the chest and was taken to a hospital, where he died.
- Autry was heard screaming that he had been stabbed and saw Jason Guthrie, 36, fleeing the scene. What led to the assault has not yet been established, other that there had been a disagreement.
- Autry and Guthrie were both on their first day of work at the beer plant.
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Jobs with highest fatality rates in the U.S.
- There were almost 5,300 fatal workplace fatalities in the United States in 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- The number represents 3.5 fatalities per 100,000 full-time workers, a decrease from the previous year.
- Still, some of the most essential jobs in our society continue to bear a disproportionate risk of death.
- Some of the most hazardous industries include construction, agriculture and landscaping.
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Here’s how a worker climbed back from a ladder fall
- After an Ontario, Canada, man fell off a ladder, he picked himself up and went back to work, thinking he might just be sore for a couple of days.
- But the master electrician had hit his head and later suffered a stroke caused by swelling from a head injury from the fall.
- The injury led to a series of health challenges for the man, requiring ongoing therapy.
- Ontario alone has experienced hundreds of ladder-related incidents and dozens of fatalities in recent years.
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Confidential Settlement Talks in Key Bridge Collapse
- Lawyers for the owner of a ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, and the family of one of the workers killed in the 2024 incident are in settlement talks.
- Dorlian Castillo Cabrera would have turned 27 this year. He was found submerged in his work truck after the cargo ship Dali struck the bridge, collapsing it.
- Cabrera had been part of a crew filling potholes on the bridge when the tragedy occurred.
- The ship’s owner, Grace Ocean Limited, has moved to limit its liability in the case, as has a management company, Synergy Marine. A judge is to rule on the motion in 2026.
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