Football Jersey Gets Caught in a Conveyor Belt
A cleanup person was instructed by his foreman to do the cleanup of a conveyor area jammed with debris. This involved loading the debris onto the conveyor, running it until it was clean, shutting it

A cleanup person was instructed by his foreman to do the cleanup of a conveyor area jammed with debris. This involved loading the debris onto the conveyor, running it until it was clean, shutting it

A 17-year old worker died just one hour into his new job after becoming pinned under a forklift. He hadn't received any job orientation or training.

You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.
Your five senses are of little use in alerting you to respiratory hazards. You usually can't see, feel or hear them, and they often have no smell or taste

Shift-Work Safety Checklist Any supervisor who works in a multiple-shift [...]

A job of repainting an outdoor stairway at a commuter train station was the end of the line for a 45-year old man. He fell from a stepladder while painting the concrete and metal stairway

A load of wooden beams fell from a flatbed trailer and killed a person who was standing by to help hook the trailer to a transport tractor. The victim and another worker were hired to

The murder of a teenage girl on her first solo night shift at a gas station has brought calls for improving security for night workers who must work alone.
A 37-year-old nurse was killed at work by a doctor.

Being experienced in your work does not provide immunity from injuries. Nearly a quarter of acute injuries happen to experienced workers - as a result of human errors.


A worker cleaning the third floor of a warehouse received massive head and chest injuries after falling more than 22 feet (seven meters) to the concrete floor below. No one witnessed the accident so it

A small woodland fire was the scene of a workplace fatality when one firefighter died of heat stroke. The young man was one of two affected by heat stroke that day. Two others were affected

A 23-year-old mill worker received a compound fracture to his foot when he tried to clear a conveyor jam.
The victim was a nurse at a care facility.

A crew leadman and a foreman were fatally burned when their oxygen-saturated clothing caught fire.
Talking to your workers about electrical hazards is always timely. [...]

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.

Heavy work on a hot day caused a fatal heat stroke for a laborer at an industrial waste processing facility. From the start of his shift in the morning to the time he collapsed in

A maintenance worker died after being drawn into a 172-inch diameter vacuum pipe at a paper processing plant.

A fire that killed a Long Island, NY, man and critically injured his wife was caused by a faulty power cord, according to fire officials.

A mechanic was killed when a bus fell on him. He apparently had used a 12-ton bottle jack under the differential to raise the rear of the 35,000-pound (15,875-kilogram) bus.

OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (BPS) requires the use of appropriate [...]

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 worker cleaning metal pieces prior to repainting was found unconscious at his workstation. Resuscitation by co-workers, firefighters and ambulance attendants failed to revive him. Methylene chloride formic acid was suspected as a cause of