STERLING, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A worker in an excavator was killed in a rockslide at a quarry in Sterling, Massachusetts Thursday. The worker was in the machine at the Onyx Corporation’s sand and ...

State inspectors say a preventable equipment failure and multiple safety lapses led to more than $170,000 in fines and placed Rotschy Inc. on Washington’s Severe Violator list. A construction company ...

MANAGERS AND OSHA. THE SOUND OF CRACKING ROCK ECHOED FROM THE QUARRY LATE INTO THE NIGHT. CREWS TRYING TO BREAK UP AND LIFT THE HEAVY BOULDERS THAT CRUSHED AN EXCAVATOR, TRAPPING THE WORKER INSIDE.

STERLING, Mass. (AP) — A worker was killed Thursday morning after a portion of a rock ledge collapsed onto an excavator with the worker inside, burying it under rocks and boulders at a quarry site in ...