Chicago injury lawyers from Abels & Annes, working with co-counsel, have reached a $50,000 settlement for an Illinois resident who was injured on the job. Our client was injured on November 11, 2007 while use a hoe to mix concrete. She was employed at Tyson Fresh Meats in Western Illinois.…
A total of 7,813 Chicago construction zone accidents and accidents in work zones throughout Illinois killed 31 people and injured 1,985, according to the release of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s annual crash statistics report. The Chicago car accident lawyers at Abels & Annes want to remind motorists to use…
Chicago injury attorneys from Abels & Annes have reached a workers’ compensation settlement for a South Side woman who was injured at work in May of 2007. She is employed with the Anixster Center, a company that works with people with disabilities. She was hurt while trying to help staff…
A trucker more than a quarter mile from an Illinois factory explosion was killed by flying debris Monday afternoon. The NDK America Plant, which manufactures crystals used in liquid-crystal displays, was designed to break apart during an explosion, according to the Chicago Tribune. Investigators are still trying to determine what…
Chicago personal injury lawyers from Abels & Annes, working with co-counsel, have reached a $195,000 settlement for a local resident who was injured on the job. Our client was injured on May 27, 2008 while trying to stop a refrigerator from falling at work. He was employed as a semi-truck…
The federal government reported this week that the smallest number of employees ever recorded died as a result of work injuries in 2008. But that was not the case in Illinois — where the number of employees killed on the job actually increased. The government acknowledged the numbers could be…
In Chicago, Illinois two construction workers were injured on the job Sunday after a trench collapsed. Fire crews spent four hours digging the two men out of the trench after the sides collapsed, trapping them, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago construction accident trapped the men up to their…
Five Chicago firefighters and two motorists were injured Saturday in a car accident on the city’s South Side. The Chicago Tribune reported that the fire truck was responding to a call just after 5 p.m. when it was struck by a passenger car. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said…
Police continue to investigate the shooting of a UPS driver Tuesday morning in Chicago’s Englewood community on the South Side, according to the Sun-Times. Detectives are interviewing witnesses and questioning a person of interest after two men approached the truck at about 9:50 a.m. Tuesday and told the UPS employee…
A Chicago area worker was injured when he fell 25-feet to the bottom of an empty tank at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant Tuesday afternoon, according to the Chicago Breaking News Center. The male worker was apparently sandblasting a section of tank when he fell into the empty tank. He…