SBA disaster assistance available as death toll climbs to 14
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — U.S. Small Business Administration’s Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet says the SBA is ready to assist businesses after the announcement of the presidential disaster declaration...
View ArticleOfficials begin looking toward post-tornado future
WINSTON COUNTY — Rescuers were still looking for people missing after last Monday’s tornado when Louisville and Winston County officials started thinking about long-term recovery. The county of 19,000...
View ArticleSurvey finds seat belt usage declining as fatalities rise
JACKSON — New data from the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety shows the observed belt usage rate is at 74.4 percent. That’s compared to 83 percent in 2012, officials said yesterday in a news...
View ArticleExplosion at Coast fish plant leaves one dead, three injured
MOSS POINT — One person was killed and three others were injured in an explosion today at a fish processing plant on the Mississippi coast. Omega Protein spokesman Ben Landry said it happened about...
View ArticleInspectors find ‘hot work’ was cause of fatal explosion at fish plant
MOSS POINT — A fatal explosion at a fish processing plant on the Mississippi Coast happened when sparks ignited a volatile mixture in a tank, safety officials said yesterday. U.S. Chemical Safety Board...
View ArticleState’s 2014 death toll from West Nile grows to five
COAHOMA COUNTY and LEE COUNTY — State health officials are reporting two new deaths from the West Nile virus in Mississippi, bringing this year’s total to five. The deaths occurred in Lee and Coahoma...
View ArticleWorker dies in oil rig accident in Southwest Mississippi
BROOKHAVEN — A Brookhaven man has died in a work-related accident on an oil rig in Lincoln County. County Coroner Clay McMorris says 22-year-old Chase D. Curtice was working on the rig Monday when he...
View ArticleLumber company draws citation from OSHA after worker’s death
FULTON — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Graham Lumber Co. in Fulton for two safety violations following the April death of a worker who got entangled in a conveyor belt....
View ArticleWorker dies after falling from roof of ‘Al Capone home’
OCEAN SPRINGS — A construction worker critically injured when he fell while working on the second-story roof of an Ocean Springs home has died. Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus said Gerald Moran,...
View ArticleGulf oil rig explosion kills one worker, injures three
GULF OF MEXICO — An explosion occurred on an offshore oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, killing one person and injuring three. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement...
View Article
