A textile worker was working on a conveyor belt. At the end of a day's production she had to clean the belt using a highly volatile cleaning solvent. This solvent was used very close to
An experienced logging truck driver, known to have a hearing disability, was waiting for his truck to be loaded. He had been requested to get out of his truck during the loading operation because of
While helping to reshingle a farmhouse roof, a worker was handling an aluminum ladder. The ladder contacted 7,200 volts of electricity when it hit a power line. The worker was electrocuted. An electrical entry wound
A steel drum containing lubricating oil exploded while a worker was heating it with a propane torch. The explosion occurred in cold winter weather in a temporary logging camp. The victim was preparing to replace
An experienced worker and his untrained helper lowered an aluminum ladder into an underground fuel storage tank. A small access hatch had been cut into the tank using a water cooled saw. One of the
A lead hand employed by a heavy equipment dealer was responsible for operating a grader and a simple conveyor system. The conveyor was being used to separate topsoil. The conveyor was set on the diagonal,
A watchman at a manufacturing facility was suffocated when a 30-foot pile of sawdust collapsed on him. The sawdust was being used to fuel a wood-fired boiler furnace.
Welding torch sparks and oil tanks don't mix. Actually that's not true. Under the right circumstances they can mix with tragic results.
A clean-up person at a veneer manufacturing plant died as a result of wounds received after being struck by a rotating cut-off saw.
Workplace violence reared its ugly head in Caroline, VA, recently when a school maintenance supervisor was gunned down in his office.
You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.
A security guard working at a FedEx Ground distribution center near Washington, DC, was found shot dead.
A welder called off vacation to complete a rush job was electrocuted after touching the charged part of an electrode holder.
Standing on a makeshift platform spanning the forks of a lift truck isn?t safe. In California, doing so proved lethal for a 29-year-old worker.
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A hospital maintenance worker was repairing a broken hand held hair dryer. He asked a co-worker to assist in locating some acetone to remove epoxy from his hands.
A worker in a soap manufacturing plant was covered in hot oil which exploded from a kettle. He died later of burns and infection. The hot oil was part of a bleaching operation. The conclusion
Early in the evening an operator of a crane was installing storm sewer pipes. Suddenly, the boom of the crane contacted the overhead high tension wires. A pipe layer who was guiding the pipe as
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 foreman placed a wooden ladder into a mixing vat that had recently been sprayed with a cleanser called methylene chloride. While on the ladder, he called over to a co-worker to start the fan in the vat.
A punch press operator was killed when he was struck in the head by a hand crank tool. The fatality occurred in a plant that manufactures lenses and other parts for developing photographic film.
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 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
A shift supervisor died after both arms were caught and partially amputated between two paper machine rollers.
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