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Posted: Aug 8, 2017

NIOSH urges training improvements after Chicago firefighter's fatal fall at warehouse

Chicago Fire Department battalion chief saw one of his firefighters fall to his death seconds after the chief radioed crews to be on the lookout for openings in the floor that weren't secured or covered, according to a federal safety report. Daniel Capuano, 42 years old and a 15-year veteran of the department, fell through a 7-foot-square elevator shaft while fighting a fire in a former slaughterhouse in the 9200 block of South Baltimore Avenue in December 2015.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
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Posted: Aug 8, 2017

American Medical Response ambulance business to be sold in $2.4 billion deal

American Medical Response, the Colorado-headquartered ambulance business of Envision Healthcare Corp., will be sold to New York buyout firm KKR & Co. LP in an all-cash deal worth $2.4 billion, Envision said today. KKR plans to combine Greenwood Village-based AMR with its Texas-based portfolio company, Air Medical Group Holdings (AMGH).
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Business Journal
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Posted: Aug 8, 2017

City Councilman chastises North Carolina fire chief about lack of diversity

Tensions between Fayetteville City Councilman Chalmers McDougald and the city fire chief flared Monday night in a council work session when Ben Major appeared to update council members on progress to increase firefighter diversity in his department. “It seems as though this department is really not willing to reach people,” McDougald said.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fayetteville Observer
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Posted: Aug 8, 2017

Tank of molten glass erupted 'like a volcano' at Ohio facility

At 10 a.m. on Monday, South Zanesville Fire Chief Russell Taylor met with engineers at the Owens-Illinois glass plant on State Street to discuss the possibility of a tank rupture. A few hours later, the bottom of a tank ruptured. "Basically like a volcano," Taylor said. Three hundred thousand tons of molten glass spilled into the facility, he said.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cincinnati Enquirer & Cincinnati.com
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Posted: Aug 8, 2017

Part of Highway 99 tunnel project halted over weekend after worker fell from scaffold

Work has stopped on part of the Highway 99 Tunnel project after a worker fell 15 feet from a scaffold over the weekend, according to Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP). It happened early Saturday in the south portal of the tunnel. STP said the worker was on a scaffold which tipped over, causing him to fall.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News
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