Several unsecured propane cylinders were being stored on the third floor of a construction project. A large propane heater was in use nearby to dry out the work-in-progress. A loud noise alerted the workers that
Could This Have Been You? An apprentice ironworker was killed when she fell through an unprotected vent shaft.
In 2000-2001, three welders in Massachusetts were fatally injured while cutting metal containers with torches.
One minute he was applying a flammable solvent to a floor to loosen linoleum. The next moment he was engulfed in flames, with third and fourth-degree burns to most of his body.
At 21, Catrina Faye Coffman had everything to look forward to.
The victim, a 22-year-old male firefighter recruit collapsed while running at the end of a training day.
The 45-year-old worker was operating the crusher for a construction company, which subcontracted to the US government to produce gravel for forest roads.
A forklift shop technician was crushed when the forks of a lift he was working on fell and landed on his chest.
An experienced worker was laying concrete on the second level of a construction project when the face shield from a welder's mask fell from an upper level. The construction worker agreed to cross the wet
A worker and his supervisor were working in a confined space using a flammable substance and an acetylene torch. The confined space was a freshwater pumping station. The two men were installing rigid foam insulation
A journeyman painter died of massive thermal burns caused when an electrical contact set off an explosion of volatile waterproofing material. The painter and a co-worker were in the basket of a personlift, designed to
A painter fell 25 feet (7.62 meters) from the top of a tank to the concrete pad below. He died of multiple traumatic injuries.
A welder in a metalwork plant pushed a 250 amp welder on a dolly over to a wall outlet. He plugged it in with his right hand while his left hand was on the welder.
A teenage worker died when his head became caught in the pasta-making machine he was operating. His job was to put the ingredients into the machine.
A student working on a summer job was electrocuted when a truck-mounted crane he was operating struck a power line. The driver of the truck instructed the student to move the crane, then backed the
An ironworker died after falling 23 feet (seven meters) from a steel girder at a construction site.
Every single day about 1,000 people injure an eye on the job. Some of these injuries are called "minor", but even a minor eye injury results in lost work time, pain, and sometimes lasting damage.
A former fire crew boss has been charged with manslaughter and lying to investigators five years after four forestry firefighters perished in a wildfire in Washington State. Ellreese N. Daniels faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter and seven counts of making false statements to people who were investigating the fatal fire.
Forklifts and worker-congested pathways can be a deadly mix, especially when forklift operators haven't been trained properly.
A man died after being hospitalized with a back injury from a construction incident, although he died from an unrelated cause.
A 61-year-old woodworker was killed as he was trying to replace a glue tray in a glue-press machine while it was still operating.
A worker was crushed underneath an overturned road-milling machine.
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