AThree experienced welders were killed recently in separate incidents while using torches to work on containers they believed were empty. In the first, a mechanic supervisor was using a torch to cut a 55-gallon metal
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
A mine crew was returning to work after a lunch break, walking on a walkway beside a mine train. The train was traveling on the tracks, propelled by a locomotive at the rear of the
A maintenance worker died after being drawn into a 172-inch diameter vacuum pipe at a paper processing plant.
A 59-year-old worker at a plant that makes plastic bags was fatally injured after falling down industrial stairs.
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.
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 fall from 25 feet (7.5 meters) killed a construction worker.
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Argon gas used as part of a welding operation caused the asphyxiation death of an apprentice welder working in a confined space. He was completing welding work inside a tank being constructed of titanium. Because
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 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 young man was working as a welder at his weekend job. Situated on a platform approximately 17 feet above the concrete floor, he had been welding for about 15 minutes when he unexpectedly fell
A worker drove a front-end loader up a dirt ramp onto a lowboy trailer in preparation for a move to another job site. As the loader reached the trailer, the tractor tread began to slide
A relatively new truck driver was engaged in transporting rock from the underground blasting area in a mine to the surface. He was still in what has been referred to as a "training position." He
Two paramedics responding to an emergency call at a decommissioned mine in British Columbia were among four people who died there.
Tom probably never knew what hit him, and Dean, driving the front-end loader, did not know he just ran over and killed a co-worker.
Jeffrey Mills was the kind of man who didn't mind going out of his way to help out.
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 21-year-old construction worker was killed when a Bobcat loader, operating on loose soil, rolled backwards over a 70-foot (21-meter) cliff into a rocky ravine.
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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
A natural gas company service man was contacted early one winter morning to investigate a gas leak. A bridge crew had noticed a strong odor of gas and a hissing sound at a natural gas
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
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
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