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A tornado on Friday hit the Amazon delivery depot in Edwardsville, Illinois, known as DLI4.

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…

Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine

Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly

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…

A volunteer setting up for an annual end-of-summer event in Swampscott, Massachusetts, had to be rescued Friday after their forklift fell through the floor of the historic town hall’s garage. The person was rescued and taken to a hospital, and is expected to survive, the town announced. The incident took place about 11:30 a.m. at the garage of the...

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…