David S. Ganoe Jr. , a school maintenance supervisor, was gunned down in his office in Caroline, VA. Police report that Thomas E. Monroe, 66, a former maintenance employee, was charged with murder of the 51-year-old.
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A storage tank with approximately 200 gallons of combustible ink was accidentally damaged while it was being moved, causing a leak. A considerable amount of liquid had spilled onto the floor before it was noticed.
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
Workplace violence reared its ugly head in Caroline, VA, recently when a school maintenance supervisor was gunned down in his office.
A 14-year-old Hispanic laborer who said he was 18 in order to get a job was partially decapitated and suffered multiple crushing injuries after he came in contact with a machine used to shred and grind plastic bags into a recyclable product.
A firefighter died while fighting a house fire. He was in charge of the pumper truck crew which was called to a home. The fire was caused by a fireplace insert which had been designed
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
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.
In the first fatality for his company, a North Carolina worker died after a fall from a truck bed.
A worker was inside a pressure trailer tanker applying a coat of anti-corrosive paint. He was using a safety lamp with a 500-watt quartz beam. A folded coat hanger was wrapped around the light and hooked to the manhole flange.
Failure to maintain equipment resulted in a fatal explosion in a metal products plant. Oil that had oozed from a hydraulic press caught fire. The fire caused two hydraulic fluid accumulators to explode.
A construction crew was preparing to pour concrete into forms. A laborer climbed a ladder on one side of a form and stepped over the form to stand on an unguarded scaffold on the opposite side.
A 59-year-old worker at a plant that makes plastic bags was fatally injured after falling down industrial stairs.
Falls are the second leading cause of accidental deaths in North America - second only to motor vehicle accidents.
An experienced press operator was killed when he was struck by pieces of a die thrown from his press. It appeared that the overhead ram of the press was set an inch lower than it
An apprentice mechanic, working part-time with a transport company, was working when a drum of windshield washer antifreeze exploded. The explosion was set off by a spark from his welding. The investigation into this death
A 14-year-old accidentally hung himself with an electric hoist as he played with the dangerous piece of equipment. The incident occurred at an equipment rental company where the boy worked, helping customers load and unload
February was a bad month for Canadian firefighters. Two veteran firefighters were killed in Winnipeg in a flashover incident during a house fire.
Two men working for a municipality subcontractor died of burns received while installing a valve in a concrete sewage channel.
An explosion which killed a plumber may have been the result of using drugs at work. He had arrived at work with an apparent hangover. Co-workers had not seen him very much that day because
Two finishers were working with a chemical product on a parquet tile floor in a residential basement. The heavier-than-air vapors from the product accumulated and spread to an adjacent room where a gas-fired water heater
A crew leadman and a foreman were fatally burned when their oxygen-saturated clothing caught fire. A sanitation district had hired a contractor to install a gate valve in a hydraulic channel. The limited-access channel was
A young father of two children was killed in an unusual manner in Dayton, OH, late in 2006. Thomas Morgan, 29, was trying to free a jam in a concrete crusher when he was struck by part of the machine.
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