A 23-year-old mill worker received a compound fracture to his foot when he tried to clear a conveyor jam.
One man died in a construction site accident in Iowa earlier this year. Two men were working in a ditch replacing a sewer line when a wall of dirt suddenly caved in. One man was killed and the other suffered serious injuries to his legs.
Many people in the safety business don't like the word accident, because it suggests nothing could have been done to prevent the situation.
Two New York contractors have both been sentenced to six-month jail terms in connection with the death of a worker
A 30-foot (10-meter) high concrete retaining wall made of interlocking concrete blocks was already in place. Then workers began to install concrete caps on top of the wall.
Trevor was 24 years old when he died in an unguarded conveyor at an asphalt plant, where investigators concluded that several safety procedures could have prevented his death.
A 66-year-old carpenter died after falling from the plank of an improvised scaffold.
Just as you use a checklist to inspect equipment, you [...]
A superintendent on a high-rise construction complex fell to his death after sustaining multiple injuries. Earlier that day, this superintendent was discovered traveling without authorization in a newly installed elevator. As a result, the company
A worker painting a fence along a railway was killed when he stepped in front of an express train. He was part of a crew painting the fence located at a rail crossing barrier. The
A knot came undone in a fall arrest system, causing a window washer to fall six stories to the ground. He died of his injuries three days later. His boss had offered him a safer
A young man was working on a building renovation project. He was inexperienced, and was working part-time for a sub-contractor. Despite repeated warnings not to do so, he had been in the habit of climbing
Three workers, one licensed electrician and two apprentices, were rewiring a residential basement. They were using a 300 watt lightbulb, drawing power from a temporary connection to power wires on an outside pole. The electrician
Two workers fell from a suspended scaffold when it broke in half 10 stories above the ground. The scaffold was loaded with supplies and equipment to repair balconies. It had been altered to lengthen the
An experienced mechanic/welder was crushed to death by a door on a metal shredder at a large scrap iron facility. The hydraulically-operated door flips down to reject unshredded metals.
A 22-year-old carpenter was working at a construction site where a multi-unit apartment complex was being built.
It was late at night and traffic was light, but unfortunately not light enough. A car traveling through the Big Dig Tunnel in Boston was in the wrong place at the wrong time when four concrete slabs weighing several tons fell from the ceiling, killing a woman.
An immigrant from Ecuador who was working construction in the Bronx, NY, was killed in an unusual incident involving an excavator.
At age 17, Timothy had no plans of dying. But fate forced a change in those plans one day.
The men must have felt privileged to work on the largest public works project in the state?s history, the building of an interstate highway bridge, but for several, their excitement turned to tragedy.
Falling through an opening on a bridge deck under construction wasn't Tom's idea of how he wanted to leave his mark in the world.
When in doubt, improvise. That old advice might work well in certain circumstances, but it?s dangerous if it involves compromising safety.
Shift-Work Safety Checklist Any supervisor who works in a multiple-shift [...]
At approximately midnight, a worker was attempting to repair a leak in a hydraulic cylinder of a newly installed washer in a commercial laundry plant. Leaning under the machine, he attempted to unhook a hydraulic
A carpenter building a wall form for concrete died when he fell onto a steel reinforcing dowel that was sticking straight up out of a concrete footing. He and a fellow worker were standing on
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