A contract worker for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was killed and another was seriously injured in a crash involving their utility service truck January 7, 2023, in Elk Grove, California. The driver, Edgar Castillo, 37, of Elk Grove, Calif., [...]

An employee with the Norman, Oklahoma, public works department was killed on the job January 9, 2023, in Norman, Okla., when a tree he was cutting hit him. Harold Parker, 57, and three other public-works employees were removing trees that [...]

A line-clearance contractor was killed while working to restore power after a storm January 13, 2023, in Jasper County, Georgia.Jesse Maxwell, 32, of Jasper County, was working in a bucket truck when a large limb kicked back, striking him in [...]

A Georgia Department of Transportation worker was killed while clearing storm damage in Walker County, Georgia, January 13, 2023.Sean Kornacki, 40, of Lafayette, Ga., was apparently on or under a fallen tree, cutting it up when the tree fell or [...]

A man died after being struck by a cut limb while 30 feet up in a tree in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, January 14, 2023.Ricardo Busto, 36, and another man were removing a limb when the limb struck him in the [...]